List of Library Committees, Their Appointment Authority with Year of Appointment, Name of Chairman and Year of Submission of Report

Year of Appointment	Name of Library Committee	Appointing Authority	Name of the Chairman	Year of Submission of Report
1939	Library Development Committee (Maharashtra) / Fyzee Committee for Public Libraries	Government of Bombay	A.A.A. Fyzee	1940
1947	Documentation (Sectional) Committee	Indian Statistical Institute	Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan	-
1957	Advisory Committee for Libraries / K. P. Sinha Committee for Public Libraries	Government of India	K. P. Sinha	1958
1957	Library Committee	University Grants Commission	Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh	1959
1957	Committee on University and College Libraries / Library Committee to Advice the U.G.C. About Development of Libraries and Their Organization	University Grants Commission	S. R. Ranganathan	1959
1961	Review Committee on Library Science	University Grants Commission	S. R. Ranganathan	1965
1963	Parry Committee (Britain)	University Grants Committee	Thomas Parry	1967
1969	Committee on the Reorganisation of Polytechnic Education	Government of India	G. R. Damodaran	1971
1976	The Joint Committee for Reorganisation of the Asiatic Society, Bombay and the Central Library, Bombay	Department of Culture, Government of India	Nihar Ranjan Ray	1976
1985	Committee on National Policy on Library and Information System (CONPOLIS) NAPLIS / Chattopadhyaya Committee	Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India	D.P.Chattopadhyaya	1986
1985	Committee to Examine the Present Structure of Emoluments and Conditions of Service of University and College Teachers	University Grants Commission	Ram Charan Mehrotra	1986
1986	Empowerment Committee	Government of India	D.P.Chattopadhyaya	1988
1988	Committee on National Network System for University  Libraries	University Grants Commission	Yash Pal	1988
1989	Review Committee on Library Staff	Department of Culture, Government of India	D. P. Chattopadhyaya	1989
1990	Curriculum Development Committee in Library and Information Science	University Grants Commission	Prithvi Nath Kaula	1993
1993	Expert Committee on College Libraries	Government of Kerala	V. P. Joy	1994
1995	Task Group on Sharing of Library and Information Resources utilizing the Revolutionary Advancements in Communication Technology	Planning Commission, Government of India	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	1996
2001	Curriculum Development Committee (CDC)	University Grants Commission	C. R. Karrisidappa	2001

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