Question

Why the Tarkunde Committee was constituted?
1. For election reforms
2. For improvement of Panchayati Raj
3. For reforms in district administration
4. None of the above

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : For election reforms

The correct answer is For election reforms.

• Jayprakash Narayan had appointed a committee to study and report on the scheme for electoral reforms in 1974 under the chairmanship of V.M. Tarkunde known as JP Committee or Tarkunde Committee.
  • Besides other recommendations, the Committee recommended that the minimum age of voting should be 18 years. It was enacted by the 61st Amendment Act of 1988.
  • The committee submitted the report in 1975.
• Vithal Mahadeo Tarkunde has been referred to as the "Father of the Civil Liberties movement" in India. 

 

• Balwant Rai Mehta Committee was appointed in 1957, to examine and suggest measures for better working of the Community Development Programme and the National Extension Service.
  • ​The committee suggested the establishment of a democratic decentralized local government which came to be known as the Panchayati Raj.
• Ashok Mehta Committee was appointed in 1977 to suggest measures to revive and strengthen the declining Panchayati Raj system in India.
• G V K Rao Committee was appointed by the planning commission in 1985. The committee recognized that development was not seen at the grass-root level due to bureaucratization resulting in Panchayat Raj institutions.
• L M Singhvi Committee was appointed by the Government of India in 1986 with the main objective to recommend steps to revitalize the Panchayati Raj systems for democracy and development.
• District Planning Committee (DPC) is the committee created as per article 243ZD of the Constitution of India at the district level for planning at the district level.