Commissions Flashcards
Lee commission
Raj’s faikure to receuit enough British officers
Mudiman commission
Deadlock within diarchic dispensation
Linlithglow commission
Crisis in Indian agriculture
Pirpur committee
By Muslim league to enquire into excesses of Congress ministers who assumed office through 1937 elections
Bombay plan (1944)
JRD Tata; GD Birla; Purshottamdas Thakurdas, etc.
This plan visualized far-reaching land reforms, a large public
sector and massive public and private investment. It also proposed cooperativization of production, finance, and marketing.
Wellby commission
Royal commission on expenditure in India (1895)
The Grand old man of India - Dadabhai Naoroji was a member
Butler committee
Jaffa Irwin in 1927 - to examine relations between British India and Princely states.
India who was part of Montford committee
Bhupendranath Basu
NFHS is conducted by
MoHFW designated IIPS, Mumbai as nodal agency; funded by UNICEF and USAID
Atal Jyoti Yojana
MoNRE - illuminate dark regions through solar lighting
FUnding - Centre & MPLADS
Whitley commission 1929
Royal commission on labour to study conditions of labour in plantations.
Increase min age for employment of children from 13->14 years.
Labour officer in each mine
Compulsory primary education
10hrs/day work only
Frazer commission
Indian Police commission appointed by Lord Curzon 1902.
Separate executive and judicial functions of police
Floud commission 1938
By Bengal legislative council.
Recommended abolition of Permanent settlement
First Indian journalist to be imprisioned
Surendranath Benerjee (1883)
He was the second India to qualify ICS (1869).
Satyendranath Tagore was the first one - 1864.
BM Malabari
Seva Sadan (1908)
Indian Spectator - English daily
Defended Rukhmabai in legal case of restitution of conjugal rights
Instrumental role in passing age of consent 1891
