Group of Ministers (GoMs)

Subject – Polity

Context – GoM set up to rationalise GST rates

Concept –

These are ad hocbodies formed to give recommendations to the cabinet on certain emergentissues and critical problem areas.
Ministers heading the concerned ministriesare inducted into the relevant GoMs and when the advice is crystallised theyare disbanded.
In the past two decades, the institution of GoMs has become a viable andeffective instrument of coordination among the ministries.
Some of these GoMs have been empowered to take decisions on behalf of the Cabinet whereas theothers make recommendations to the Cabinet.