Punchhi Commission
The Government of India constituted a Commission on Centre-State Relations under the chairmanship of Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi, former Chief Justice of India on 27th April 2007 to look into the new issues of Centre-State relations keeping in view the changes that have taken place in the polity and economy of India since the Sarkaria Commission had last looked at the issue of Centre-State relations over two decades ago.
Composition of the Commission
- Shri Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi (Retd.), Former Chief Justice of India, Chairman.
- Shri Dhirendra Singh, Former Secretary to the Government of India, Member.
- Shri Vinod Kumar Duggal, Former Secretary to the Government of India, Member.
- Dr. N.R. Madhava Menon, Former Director, National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, and National Law School of India, Bangalore, Member.
- Shri Vijay Shanker, IPS (Retd.), Former Director, Central Bureau of Investigation, Govt of India, Member Secretary.
The Commission examined and reviewed the working of the existing arrangements between the Union and States, various pronouncements of the Courts in regard to powers, functions and responsibilities in all spheres including legislative relations, administrative relations, role of governors, emergency provisions, financial relations, economic and social planning, Panchayati Raj institutions, sharing of resources including inter-state river water etc. The Commission made 273 recommendations in its seven volume report presented to Government on 30 March 2010.
- Gazette Notification in English [Size – 26.4kb]
- Gazette Notification in Hindi [Size – 100kb]
- Public Notice [Size – 19.1kb]
- Terms of Reference
- Report of the Commission on Centre-State Relations [All the Volumes of the Report In PDF Format]