Question

Which of the following committee was appointed by Government in 1998, to estimate the educational Expenditure?
1. Janaki Ram Committee
2. Kothari Commission
3. Tapas Majumdar Committee
4. Malimath Commission

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Tapas Majumdar Committee

The correct answer is Tapas Majumdar Committee.

• Tapas Majumdar Committee was appointed by Government in 1998, to estimate the educational Expenditure.

• Tapas Majumdar Committee was set up by the NDA Government in 1999 which encompassed the insertion of Article 21A.
• The Tapas Majumdar committee recommended that even children belonging to the poorest sections of society must receive an education that was comparable in quality with the best.
• The Committee also suggested a required expenditure of around Rs. 1.37 lakh crores over a ten-year time frame (1998-2007) to bring all the children in the 6-14 age groups under the purview of school education by 2008 under its financial memorandum.
• The 86^th amendment to the constitution of India in 2002, provided the Right to Education as a fundamental right in part-III of the Constitution.
• The same amendment inserted Article 21A which made the Right to Education a fundamental right for children between 6-14 years.
• The 86th amendment provided for follow-up legislation for the Right to Education Bill 2008 and finally the Right to Education Act 2009.

Janaki Ram Committee

• The Janakiraman Committee was set up by the Reserve Bank of India in April 1992.
• Janakiraman Committee was constituted with the aim to investigate the irregularities that had taken place in the securities transactions undertaken by the banks and financial institutions in 91–92.
• Janakiraman was the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

Kothari Commission

• The Indian Education Commission is popularly known as Kothari Education Commission (1964-66).
• It was set up by the Government of India on July 14, 1964, under the chairmanship of Dr. Daulat Singh Kothari.
• The objective of the Kothari Commission was to examine the different aspects of the education system in India.
• It aimed to increase enrollment in schools to attend the desirable goal of free and compulsory education.

Malimath Commission

• Malimath Committee (2000) on reforms in the Criminal Justice System of India (CJS) submitted its report in 2003.
• The report was submitted to the Deputy Prime Minister of India L. K. Advani.
• The committee was constituted by the Home Ministry.
• The committee was headed by Justice V. S. Malimath, former chief justice of Karnataka and Kerala.
• It suggested 158 changes in the Criminal Justice System of India but the recommendations weren’t implemented by the government.
• The Committee had opined that the existing system “weighed in favour of the accused and did not adequately focus on justice to the victims of crime.”