Thursday 21 June 2012

Ashok Chawla Committee

Committee on Allocation of Natural Resources, commonly known as the Ashok Chawla Committee was constituted to examine the approach to allocating natural resources such as land, coal, minerals, petroleum, natural gas, etc. The purpose was to obtain recommendations which would enhance transparency, effectiveness and sustainability in the allocation, pricing and utilization of natural resources through open, transparent and competitive mechanisms and to suggest changes in the legal, institutional and regulatory framework to implement the recommendations.

The recommendations of the Committee had been examined by the Group of Ministers on corruption headed by the Finance Minister and the GoM had accepted 69 of the 81 recommendations. 11 recommendations were to be examined further.

69 agreed recommendations would be pursued for implementation by individual Ministries in a timely manner.

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