Committees Appointed

Committees are appointed by the Government to look at specific problems and formulate the best response to them. The committees are appointed to aid the Government in making its decisions and future policies regarding the state of any given department. The committees have been appointed to review, check or conduct a system of checks and balances in various institutions and departments. Parliamentary committees are appointed by the Parliament for some specific tasks. There are two different types of parliamentary committees. These are ad hoc and standing committees. G.V.K Rao Committee, L.M. Singhvi Committee, and Ashok Mehta Committee have been studied. 

Committees Appointed

The committees are appointed on a periodical basis or to respond to a specific situation after which they are dissolved. The former is the permanent committee and the latter is the ad hoc committee. Standing committees are committees that are periodically appointed and can not necessarily be dissolved. They are tasked with some periodical evaluation of certain functions and are made up of parliamentary members. However, after independence, there have been several ad hoc committees that carried out specific tasks and were then dissolved after the submission of their reports. Chief among them were the G.V.K Rao Committee, L.M. Singhvi Committee, and Ashok Mehta Committee. These committees were appointed after the Balwant Rai Mehta committee and during the political developments in the 1980s. The culmination of all the findings of these committees would be the 73rd Amendment Act in 1992. 

G. V. K. Rao Committee

The G.V.K. Rao Committee was appointed to find out and review several administrative arrangements in rural areas. This was as a measure of a greater initiative to bring the rural areas to the forefront and bring much-needed development and advancements in administrative, educational, and public health departments. The aim was to think about viable ways in which to bring about development and alleviate poverty. It was appointed in 1985 by the Planning Commission. The bureaucratic arrangement had divorced the Panchayati Raj system. It was recommended by the G.V.K. Rao committee that the Zila Parishad should be made the pivotal point of importance in the entire administrative structure. District Development Commissioner was a post that was recommended by the Committee for better administration. Decentralisation needed to be on a democratic approach. 

L.M. Singhvi Committee

It was under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi that the L.M. Singhvi Committee was appointed. It was appointed in 1986. The committee was appointed for finding out ways in which the Panchayati system could be revitalised through effective means. Gram Sabhas was recognised as the fundamental unit of the democratic decentralisation system by the L.M. Singhvi committee. The Committee emphasized the need for the constitution to recognise these local bodies as legitimate local authorities. There should be a Panchayati judicial tribunal in every state. Politically influential people were recommended to desist from participating in the Nyaya Panchayat system. 

Ashok Mehta Committee

The Ashok Mehta Committee was the first among other committees in 1977 to demand proper recognition and administration of the Panchayati system. The Committee made 132 recommendations for strengthening the local self-governing bodies and reclaiming their fading relevance in the rural scene in India. 

Conclusion

Three types of committees are usually appointed which are DRSC (Department Related to Standing Committees), FSC (Financial Standing Committee), and OSC (Other Standing Committee). Pre-independence there were few notable ad hoc committees in operation, most notable being the Rowlatt Committee.