List of Various Committees & Their Focus Area

1. Abhijit Sen Committee (2002) : Long Term Food Policy
2. Abid Hussain Committee: On Small Scale Industries
3. Ajit Kumar Committee : Army Pay Scales
4. Athreya Committee: Restructuring Of IDBI
5. Basel Committee: Banking Supervision
6. Bhurelal Committee : Increase In Motor Vehicle Tax
7. Bimal Julka Committee : Working Conditions ATCOS
8. C B Bhave Committee : Company Information
9. C Babu Rajiv Committee : Reforms In Ship Act 1908 & Ship Trust Act 1963
10. Chakravarty Committee : Working Of The Monetary System And Suggest Measure For Improving The Effectiveness Fo Monetary Policy In Promoting Economic Development
11. Chandra Shekhar Committee : Venture Capital
12. Chandrate Committee: Delisting In Sharemarket
13. Chore Committee : Review The Operation Of The Cash Credit System
14. Dave Committee (2000) : Pension Scheme For Unorganized Sector
15. Deepak Parikh Committee : To Revive Unit Trust If India (UTI)
16. Dhanuka Committee : Simplification Of Transfer Rules In Security Markets
17. G V Ramakrishna Committee : On Disinvestment
18. Goiporia Committee : Improvement In The Customer Service At Primary (Urban) Cooperative Banks
19. Hanumant Rao Committee: Fertilizers
20. J R Varma Committee: Current Account Carry Forward Practice
21. Jankiramanan Committee : Securities Transactions
22. JJ Irani Committee : Company Law Reforms
23. K Kannan Committee : To Examine The Relevance Of The Concept Of Maximum ermissible Bank Finance (MPBF) As A Method Of Assessing The Requirements Of Bank Credit For Working Capital And To Suggest Alternative Methods.
24. Kelkar Committee : Tax Structure Reforms
25. Khan Working Group :Development Finance Institutions
26. Khusro Committee : Agricultural Credit System
27. Kumarmanglam Birla Report: Corporate Governance
28. Mahajan Committee (1997): Sugar Industry
29. Malegam Committee : Reforms In The Primary Market & Repositioning of UTI
30. Malhotra Committee : Broad Framework Of Insurance Sector
31. Marathe Committee: Recommendation For Urban Co-operative Banks
32. Mashelkar Committee 2002 : Auto Fuel Policy
33. Mckinsey Report: Merger Of 7 Associate Banks With SBI
34. Meera Seth Committee: Development Of Handlooms
35. Narismhan Committee: Banking Reforms
36. NN Vohra Committee : Relations (Nexus) Of Politicians With Criminals
37. Parekh Committee : Infrastructure Financing
38. Percy Mistry Committee: Making Mumbai An International Financial Center
39. Prasad Panel : International Trade And Services
40. R V Gupta Committee : Small Savings
41. Raja Chelliah Committee: Tax Reforms
42. Rekhi Committee : Indirect Taxes
43. RV Gupta Committee : Agricultural Credit
44. S P Talwar Committee: Restructuring Of Weak Public Sector Bank
45. S Tendulkar Committee: Redefining Poverty Line And Its Calculation Formula
46. Sapta Rishi Committee (July 2002) : Development Of Domestic Tea Industry
47. Shah Committee : Reforms Relating To Non Banking Financial Companies (NFBC)
48. SL Kapoor Committee : Credit & Flow Problems Of Ssis
49. SN Verma Committee (1999) : Restructuring The Commercial Banks
50. Tandon Committee : System Of WORKING CAPITAL Financing By Banks
51. Tarapore Committee: Report On Capital Account Convertibility
52. Udesh Kohli Committee: Analyze Fund Requirement In Power Sector
53. UK Sharma Committee : NABARD's Role In RRB
54. Vaghul Committee : Money Market In India
55. Vasudev Committee: NBFC( Non Banking Finance Corp) Sector Reforms
56. Y B Reddy Committee :2001 : Review Of Income Tax Rebates
57. A C Shah Committee:NBFC
58. A Ghosh Committee:Final Accounts
59. A Ghosh Committee:Modalities Of Implementation Of New 20 Point Programme
60. A Ghosh Committee:Frauds & Malpractices In Banks
61. Abid Hussain Committee:Development Of Capital Markets
62. Adhyarjuna Committee:Changes In NI Act And Stamp Act
63. AK Bhuchar Committee:Coordination Between Term Lending Institutions And Commercial Banks
64. B Eradi Committee:Insolvency And Wind Up Laws
65. B Sivaraman Committee:Institutional Credit For Agricultural & Rural Development
66. B Venkatappaiah Committee:All India Rural Credit Review
67. BD Shah Committee:Stock Lending Scheme
68. BD Thakar Committee:Job Criteria In Bank Loans (Approach)
69. Bhagwati Committee:Unemployment
70. Bhagwati Committee:Public Welfare
71. Bhave Committee:Share Transfer Reforms
72. Bhide Committee:Coordination Between Commercial Banks And SFC's
73. Bhootlingam Committee:Wage, Income & Prices
74. C Rao Committee:Agricultural Policy
75. CE Kamath Committee:Multi Agency Approach In Agricultural Finance
76. Chatalier Committee:Finance To Small Scale Industry
77. Chesi Committee:Direct Taxes
78. Cook Committee (On Behalf Of BIS - Under Basel Committee ):Capital Adequacy Of Banks
79. D R Mehta Committee:Review Progress And Recommend Improvement Measures Of IRDP
80. Damle Committee:MICR
81. Dandekar Committee:Regional Imbalances
82. Dantwala Committee:Estimation Of Employments
83. Dave Committee:Mutual Funds (Functioning)
84. Dharia Committee:Public Distribution System
85. DR Gadgil Committee:Agricultural Finance
86. Dutta Committee:Industrial Licensing
87. G Lakshmai Narayan Committee:Extension Of Credit Limits On Basis Of Consortium
88. G Sundaram Committee:Export Credit
89. Gadgil Committee (1969):Lead Banking System
90. Godwala Committee:Rural Finance
91. Goiporia Committee:Customer Service In Banks
92. GS Dahotre Committee:Credit Requirements Of Leasing Industry
93. GS Patel Committee:Carry Forward System On Stock Exchanges
94. Hathi Committee:Soiled Banknotes
95. Hazari Committee (1967):Industrial Policy
96. IT Vaz Committee:Working Capital Finance In Banks
97. J Reddy Committee:Reforms In Insurance Sector
98. James Raj Committee:Functioning Of Public Sector Banks
99. Jankiramanan Committee:Securities Transactions Of Banks & Financial Institutions
100. JV Shetty Committee:Consortium Advances
101. K Madhav Das Committee:Urban Cooperative Banks
102. Kalyansundaram Committee:Introduction Of Factoring Services In India
103. Kamath Committee:Education Loan Scheme
104. Karve Committee:Small Scale Industry
105. KB Chore Committee:To Review The Symbol Of Cash Credit Q
106. Khanna Committee:Non Performing Assets
107. Khusrau Committee:Agricultural Credit
108. KS Krishnaswamy Committee:Role Of Banks In Priority Sector And 20 Point Economic Programme
109. L K Jha Committee:Indirect Taxes
110. LC Gupta Committee:Financial Derivatives
111. Mahadevan Committee:Single Window System
112. Mahalanobis Committee:Income Distribution
113. Marathe Committee:Licensing Of New Banks
114. ML Dantwala Committee:Regional Rural Banks
115. Mrs. KS Shere Committee:Electronic Fund Transfer
116. Nadkarni Committee:Improved Procedures For Transactions In PSU Bonds And Units
117. Nariman Committee:Branch Expansion Programme
118. Narsimham Committee:Financial System
119. Omkar Goswami Committee:Industrial Sickness And Corporate Restructuring
120. P R Nayak Committee:Institutional Credit To SSI Sector
121. P Selvam Committee:Non Performing Assets Of Banks
122. PC Luther Committee:Productivity, Operational Efficiency & Profitability Of Banks
123. PD Ojha Committee:Service Area Approach
124. Pendarkar Committee:Review The System Of Inspection Of Commercial, RRB And Urban Cooperative Banks
125. Pillai Committee:Pay Scales Of Bank Officers
126. PL Tandon Committee:Export Strategy
127. PR Khanna Committee:Develop Appropriate Supervisory Framework For NBFC
128. Purshottam Das Committee:Agricultural Finance And Cooperative Societies
129. R Jilani Banks:Inspection System Of Banks
130. R S Saria Committee:Agricultural Finance And Cooperative Societies
131. Raghavan Committee:Competition Law
132. Raja Chelliah Committee:Tax Reforms
133. Rajamannar Committee:Centre - State Fiscal Relationships
134. Rajamannar Committee:Changes In Banking Laws , Bouncing Of Cheques Etc.
135. Rakesh Mohan Committee:Petro Chemical Sector
136. Ram Niwas Mirdha Committee (JPC):Securities Scam
137. Rangrajan Committee:Computerization Of Banking Industry
138. Rangrajan Committee:Public Sector Disinvestment
139. Rashid Jilani Committee:Cash Credit System
140. Ray Committee:Industrial Sickness
141. RG Saraiya Committee (1972):Banking Commission
142. RH Khan Committee:Harmonization Of Banks And Ssis
143. RK Hajare Committee:Differential Interest Rates Scheme
144. RK Talwar Committee:Customer Service
145. RK Talwar Committee:Enactment Having A Bearing On Agro Landings By Commercial Banks
146. RN Malhotra Committee:Reforms In Insurance Sector
147. RN Mirdha Committee:Cooperative Societies
148. RV Gupta Committee:Agricultural Credit Delivery
149. S Padmanabhan Committee:Onsite Supervision Function Of Banks
150. S Padmanabhan Committee:Inspection Of Banks (By RBI)
151. Samal Committee:Rural Credit
152. SC Choksi Committee:Direct Tax Law
153. Shankar Lal Gauri Committee:Agricultural Marketing
154. SK Kalia Committee:Role Of NGO And SHG In Credit
155. SL Kapoor Committee:Institutional Credit To SSI
156. Sodhani Committee:Foreign Exchange Markets In NRI Investment In India
157. SS Kohli Committee:Rehabilitation Of Sick Industrial Units
158. SS Kohli Committee:Rationalization Of Staff Strength In Banks
159. SS Kohli Committee:Willful Defaulters
160. SS Nadkarni Committee:Trading In Public Sector Banks
161. SS Tarapore Committee:Capital Account Convertibility
162. Sukhmoy Chakravarty Committee:To Review The Working Of Monetary System
163. Tambe Committee:Term Loans To SSI
164. Tandon Committee:Follow Up Of Bank Credit
165. Tandon Committee:Industrial Sickness
166. Thakkar Committee:Credit Schemes To Self Employed
167. Thingalaya Committee:Restructuring Of RRB
168. Tiwari Committee:Rehabilitation Of Sick Industrial Undertakings
169. UK Sharma Committee:Lead Bank Scheme (Review)
170. Usha Thorat Panel: Financial Inclusion
171. Vaghul Committee:Mutual Fund Scheme
172. Varshney Committee:Revised Methods For Loans (>2 Lakhs)
173. Venketaiya Committee:Review Of Rural Financing System
174. Vipin Malik Committee:Consolidated Accounting By Banks
175. VT Dehejia Committee:To Study Credit Needs Of Industry And Trade Likely To Be Inflated
176. Vyas Committee:Rural Credit
177. Wanchoo Committee:Direct Taxes
178. WS Saraf Committee:Technology Issues In Banking Industry
179. Y H Malegam Committee:Disclosure Norms For Public Issues
180. YV Reddy Committee:Reforms In Small Savings

Some Recent Working Groups & Committees by RBI & Their Focus Area:

(Name of Chairmen is given)

1. Working Group on Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR): Deepak Mohanty
2. Working Group on Surveys: Deepak Mohanty
3. High Level Committee to Review Lead Bank Scheme: Usha Thorat
4. Working Group to Review the Business Correspondent Model: P Vijaya Bhaskar Rao
5. High Level Group on Systems and Procedures for Currency Distribution: Usha Thorat
6. G20 Working Group on Enhancing Sound Regulation and Strengthening Transparency: Dr. Rakesh Mohan and Mr. Tiff Macklem
7. Committee on Financial Sector Assessment: Dr. Rakesh Mohan
8. High Level Committee on Estimation of Savings and Investment: Dr. C. Rangarajan
9. Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) on Capital Flows and Emerging Market Economies: Dr. Rakesh Mohan
10. Task Force For Diamond Sector: A K Bera
11. Technical Advisory Group on Development of Housing Start-Up Index in India: Prof. Amitabh Kundu
12. Working Group on Defraying Cost of ICT Solutions for RRBs: Shri G. Padmanabhan
13. Working Group on IT support for Urban Cooperative Banks: R Gandhi
14. Working Group on Technology Upgradation of Regional Rural Banks: Shri G. Srinivasan
15. Interest Rate Futures: Shri V.K. Sharma
16. Internal Working Group to Study the Recommendations of the NCEUS Report: KUB Rao
17. Working Group on Improvement of Banking Services in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep: S. Ramaswamy
18. Working Group on Rehabilitation of Sick SMEs: Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty
19. Working Group on Improvement of Banking Services In Jharkhand: V.S.Das
20. Working Group on Improvement of Banking Services in Himachal Pradesh: Dr. J. Sadakkadulla
21. Internal Technical Group on Seasonal Movements in Inflation: Dr. Balvant Singh
22. Working Group to Examine the Procedures and Processes of Agricultural Loans: C P Swarankar
23. Task Force on Empowering RRB Boards for Operational EfficiencyDr. K.G. Karmakar
24. Technical Group Set up to Review Legislations on Money Lending: Shri.S. C. Gupta
25. Working Group To Suggest Measures To Assist Distressed Farmers: Shri. S. S. Johl
26. Technical Group on Statistics for International Trade in Banking Services: Shri K.S.R.Rao
27. Technical Advisory Group On Development Of Leading Economic Indicators For Indian EconomyDr. R B Barman
28. Working Group on Savings for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12): Dr.Rakesh Mohan
29. Working Group on Compilation of State Government Liabilities: Dr. N.D. Jadhav
30. Working Group on Improvement of Banking Services in Uttaranchal: V.S. Das
31. Working Group on Cost of NRI Remittances: P. K. Pain
32. Working group to formulate a scheme for Ensuring Reasonableness of Bank Charges: N. Sadasivam
33. Committee on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility: S.S.Tarapore
34. Committee on Financial Sector Plan for North Eastern Region: Smt. Usha Thorat
35. Survey on Impact of Trade Related Measures on Transaction Costs of Exports: Balwant Singh
36. Advisory Committee on Ways and Means Advances to State Governments: M.P.Bezbaruah
37. Need and Use Behavior for Small Denomination Coins: Sanal Kumar Velayudhan
38. Debt Sustainability at State Level in India: Indira Rajaraman, Shashank Bhide and R.K.Pattnaik
39. Internal Group to Examine Issues Relating to Rural Credit and Microfinance: Shri H.R.Khan
40. Working Group to Review Export Credit: Shri Anand Sinha
41. Internal Working Group on RRBs: Shri A V Sardesai
42. Working Group on Warehouse Receipts and Commodity Futures: Shri Prashant Saran
43. Internal Group to Review Guidelines on Credit Flow to SME Sector: Shri C.S.Murthy
44. Working Group on Regulatory Mechanism for Cards Shri R.Gandhi
45. Group on Model Fiscal Responsibility Legislation at State Level: Shri H R Khan
46. Task Force on Revival of Cooperative Credit Institutions: Prof.A.Vaidyanathan
47. Special Group for Formulation of Debt Restructuring Mechanism for Medium Enterprises: Shri G.Srinivasan
48. Working Group on Screen Based Trading In Government Securities: Dr.R.H.Patil
49. Expert Group on Internet Deployment of Central Database Management System (CDBMS): Prof.A.Vaidyanathan
50. Report on Monitoring of Financial Conglomerates: Smt.Shyamala Gopinath
51. Working Group on Development Financial Institutions: Shri N. Sadasivan
52. Advisory Committee to Advise on the Administered Interest Rates and Rationalisation of Saving Instruments: Dr.Rakesh Mohan
53. Advisory Committee on Flow of Credit to Agriculture: Prof.V.S.Vyas
54. Working Group on Flow of Credit to SSI Sector: Dr.A.S.Ganguly
55. Group to Study the Pension Liabilities of the State Governments: B. K. Bhattacharya
56. Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives: Shri G. Padmanabhan
57. Working Group on Instruments of Sterilisation: Smt. Usha Thorat
58. Working Group on Information on State Government Guaranteed Advances and Bonds: Shri.G.Padmanabhan
59. Working Group on Cheque Truncation and E-cheques: Dr.Barman, ED
60. Working Group on Introduction of Credit Derivatives in India: Shri B. Mahapatra
61. Group to Assess the Fiscal Risk of State Government Guarantees: Smt. Usha Thorat
62. Advisory Committee on Ways and Means Advances to State Governments: Shri C.Ramachandran
63. Working Group on Rupee Derivatives: Shri Jaspal Bindra
64. Committee on Computer Audit: Shri A.L. Narasimhan
65. Committee on Payment Systems: Dr R H Patil
66. Review Group on The Working of The Local Area Bank SchemeShri G.Ramachandran
67. Technical Group on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Shri Deepak Mohanty
68. Working Group for Suggesting Operational and Prudential Guidelines on STRIPS (Separately Traded Registered Interest and Principal of Securities): Shri M.R.Ramesh
69. Working Group on Electronic Money: Mr.Zarir J. Cama
70. Working Group on Economic Indicators Dr. R.B. Barman
71. Working Group to Examine the Role of Credit Information Bureaus in Collection and Dissemination of Information on Suit-filed Accounts and Defaulters: Shri S.R. Iyer
72. Information systems audit policy for the banking and financial sector: Dr. R.B.Burman
73. Working Group on Consolidated Accounting and Other Quantitative Methods to Facilitate Consolidated Supervision: Shri Vipin Malik
74. Expert Committee to Review the System of Administered Interest Rates and Other Related Issues: Dr.Y.V. Reddy
75. Inter-Departmental Group to study the Rationalisation of Current account Facility with Reserve Bank of India: Shri K.W. Korgaonkar
76. The Expert Committee on Legal Aspects of Bank Frauds: Dr.N.L. Mitra
77. The Standing Committee on International Financial Standards and Codes
    Standing Committee on International Financial Standards and Codes: Dr. Y.V.Reddy
78. Technical Group on Market Integrity: Shri C.R. Muralidharan
79. Technical Group on Phasing Out of Non-banks from Call/Notice Money Market (March 2001): Dr.Y.V.Reddy
80. Core Group on Voluntary Disclosure Norms for State Governments: Dr.Y.V.Reddy
81. Task Force to Study the Cooperative Credit System and Suggest Measures for its Strengthening: Shri Jagdish Kapoor
82. Internal Group to Review the Guidelines Relating to Commercial Paper: Dr.Y.V.Reddy
83. High Power Committee on Urban Cooperative Banks: Shri Madhav Rao
84. Working Group for setting up Credit Information Bureau in India: Shri N.H.Siddiqui
85. Committee for Redesigning of Financial Statements of Non-Banking Financial Companies: Shri V.S.N. Murthy
86. Working Group on Restructuring Weak Public Sector Banks: Shri M.S.Verma
    Working Group for Working Out Modalities on Dissemination of Information in Electronic Form: Shri Y.S.P. Thorat and Shri C.R. Gopalasundaram
87. Committee on Technology Upgradation in the Banking Sector: Dr A.Vasudevan ]
88. Working Group of EURO: Shri V.Subrahmanyam
89. New Monetary Aggregates: Dr. Y.V. Reddy
90. Committee on Capital Account Convertibility: Shri S.S.Tarapore