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APPENDIX - 2

CHRONOLOGy OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020

S. No. Name of Commission/ Year Chairman/ Recommendations
Committee /Report Organization
1 Expert Committee on Mar- 2001 Shri. Shankerlal The Essential Commodities
keting Infrastructure and Guru Act, 1955 needs to be
Agricultural Marketing repealed for an uninhibited
Reforms free market system
2 Task Force on Employment 2001 Shri. Montek Essential Commodities
Opportunities Singh Act should be repealed
Ahluwalia to extend the benefit of
de-control to agriculture
3 Standing Committee of Committee’s Progressive dismantling of
Union Ministers and Chief Meeting held controls under the Essential
Ministers on Food Manage- on 6th July, Commodities Act
ment and Agricultural 2001
Exports
4 Standing Committee of Committee’s While taking note of the
Union Ministers and Chief Meeting held Government of India deci-
Ministers on Food Man- on 23rd March, sion to remove restrictions
agement and Agricultural 2002 on storage, movement, and
Exports distribution of wheat, pad-
dy, rice, coarse grains, sug-
ar, edible oilseeds and edi-
ble oils, recommended that
similar restrictions relating
to pulses also need to be
removed and that the States
would also carry out fur-
ther review to reduce vari-
ous Control Orders issued
by the States in respect of
other commodities.
5 National Commission on 2005 Prof. M.S. It would be better if the
Farmers: Third Report Swaminathan ECA, 1955, was put under
suspended animation for
the present and revived by
Government notification
if any emergency situation
develops, for a limited time
for a specific commodity in
a specified area.