FINANCE COMMISSIONS OF INDIA

FIRST FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : ~ Shri K.C. Neogy

Members :
~ Shri V.P. Menon (Resigned 18th Feb., 1952)
~ Shri Justice R. Kaushalendra Rao
~ ~ Dr. B.K. Madan
~ Shri M.V. Rangachari, Member Secretary
~ Shri V.L. Mehta (in place of ~ Shri V.P. Menon)

SECOND FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : ~ Shri K. Santhanam

Members

~ Shri Ujjal Singh
~ Shri L.S. Misra (Retired Chief Justice, Hyderabad)
~ Shri M.V. Rangachari
~ Dr. B.N. Ganguli

THIRD FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman :Shri Ashok Kumar Chanda

Members :

~ Shri P. Govinda Menon
~ Shri Dwijendra Nath Roy (Retired High Court Judge)
Prof. M.V. Mathur
~ Shri G.R. Kamat, Member Secretary

FOURTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman :Dr. P.V. Rajamannar

Members :
~ Shri Mohan Lal Gautam
~ Shri D.G. Karve
Prof. Bhabatosh Datta
~ Shri P.C. Mathew, Member Secretary

FIFTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : Shri Mahavir Tyagi

Members :
~ Shri P.C. Bhattacharyya (Died)
~ Shri M. Seshachalapathy (Retired Judge)
~ Dr. D. T. Lakdawala
~ Shri V.L. Gidwani, Member Secretary
~ Shri G. Swaminathan (21st February, 1969) (In place of Shri P.C. Bhattacharyya)

SIXTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : Shri K. Brahmananda Reddi

Members :

~ Shri Justice Syed Sadat Abal Masud
~ Dr. B.S. Minhas
~ Dr. I.S. Gulati
~ Shri G. Ramachandran, Member Secretary

SEVENTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : Shri J.M. Shelat

Members :
~ Dr. Raj Krishna
~ Dr. C.H. Hanumantha Rao
~ Shri H.N. Ray
~ Shri V.B. Eswaran, Member Secretary

EIGHTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : ~ Shri Y.B. Chavan

Members :

~ Shri Justice Sabya Sachi Mukherjee (Resigned)
~ Dr. C.H. Hanumantha Rao
~ Shri G.C. Baveja
~ Shri A.R. Shirali
~ Shri Justice T.P.S. Chawla (In place of Shri Justice Sabha Sachi Mukherjee)
~ Shri N.V. Krishnan, Secretary

NINTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : Shri N.K.P. Salve

Members :
~ Shri Justice Abdus Sattar Qureshi
~ Dr. Raja J. Chelliah
~ Shri Lal Thanhawla (Resigned on 24th January, 1989)
~ Shri Mahesh Prasad, Member Secretary (Resigned)
~ Shri S. Venkitaramanan (In place of Shri Lal Thanhawla on 3rd May, 1989)
~ Shri Venkitaramanan resigned as Member of the Finance Commission on his appointment as Adviser to the Government of Karnataka,
~ Shri R. Keishing assumed charge as part time Member of the Commission w.e.f. 25th November 1989.
~ Shri K.V.R. Nair was appointed as Member Secretary (In place of ~ Shri Mahesh Prasad from 13th July, 1989)

TENTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : K.C. Pant

Members :
~ Dr. Debi Prosad Pal, MP
~ Shri B.P.R. Vithal
~ Dr. C. Rangarajan (Resigned 21st December, 1992)
~ Shri M.C. Gupta relinquished charge on 31st January, 1994.
~ Shri Manu R. Shroff (In place of Dr. C. Rangarajan on 14th October, 1993)
~ Shri Arun Sinha, Member Secretary (In place of Shri M.C. Gupta) on 1st March, 1994

ELEVENTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : Prof. A.M. Khusro

Members :

~ Shri N.C. Jain
~ Shri J.C. Jetly, IAS (Retd.)
~ Dr. Amaresh Bagchi
~ Shri T.N. Srivastava, IAS, Member Secretary

TWELFTH FINANCE COMMISSION

Chairman : Dr. C. Rangarajan

Members of the Twelfth Finance Commission

Shri T.R Prasad, IAS (Retd.)

Prof. D.K Srivastava ,

Dr.Shankar Acharya , Part time Member

Shri. Som Pal , Part time Member

Note: Shri Som Pal has resigned with effect from the 14th day of May, 2004. In his place

Dr. Shankar N. Acharya has been appointed as Part-time Member since July 2nd, 2004.

Member Secretary

Dr. G.C. Srivastava, IAS