Group of Ministers (GoMs)
- September 27, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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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.