Finance Commissions of India and their chairmen: GK quiz
15 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.
Source: Finance Commission of India - coffee table book 'Finance Commissions - A legacy of trust' (75 Years of Finance Commissions) ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026
Question 1 of 15
Who chaired the Eleventh Finance Commission (2000-2005)?
Question 2 of 15
Who chaired the Sixth Finance Commission (1974-1979)?
Question 3 of 15
Shri Ashok Kumar Chanda chaired which Finance Commission?
Question 4 of 15
Who chaired the Tenth Finance Commission (1995-2000)?
Question 5 of 15
Who chaired the Fourth Finance Commission (1966-1969)?
Question 6 of 15
Shri N.K. Singh chaired which Finance Commission?
Question 7 of 15
Who chaired the Seventh Finance Commission (1979-1984)?
Question 8 of 15
Who chaired the Fifth Finance Commission (1969-1974)?
Question 9 of 15
Shri Y. V. Reddy chaired which Finance Commission?
Question 10 of 15
Who chaired the Ninth Finance Commission (1989-1995)?
Question 11 of 15
Who chaired the Eighth Finance Commission (1984-1989)?
Question 12 of 15
Shri Vijay L. Kelkar chaired which Finance Commission?
Question 13 of 15
Who chaired the First Finance Commission (1952-1957)?
Question 14 of 15
Who chaired the Twelfth Finance Commission (2005-2010)?
Question 15 of 15
Dr. Arvind Panagariya chaired which Finance Commission?
The official list (16 rows)
| Finance Commission | Chairman |
|---|---|
| First Finance Commission (1952-1957) | Shri K. C. Neogy |
| Second Finance Commission (1957-1962) | Shri K. Santhanam |
| Third Finance Commission (1962-1966) | Shri Ashok Kumar Chanda |
| Fourth Finance Commission (1966-1969) | Dr. P. V. Rajamannar |
| Fifth Finance Commission (1969-1974) | Shri Mahavir Tyagi |
| Sixth Finance Commission (1974-1979) | Shri K. Brahmananda Reddy |
| Seventh Finance Commission (1979-1984) | Shri J. M. Shelat |
| Eighth Finance Commission (1984-1989) | Shri Y. B. Chavan |
| Ninth Finance Commission (1989-1995) | Shri N.K.P. Salve |
| Tenth Finance Commission (1995-2000) | Shri K.C. Pant |
| Eleventh Finance Commission (2000-2005) | Prof. A.M. Khusro |
| Twelfth Finance Commission (2005-2010) | Sh. C. Rangarajan |
| Thirteenth Finance Commission (2010-2015) | Shri Vijay L. Kelkar |
| Fourteenth Finance Commission (2015-2020) | Shri Y. V. Reddy |
| Fifteenth Finance Commission (2020-2026) | Shri N.K. Singh |
| Sixteenth Finance Commission | Dr. Arvind Panagariya |
Left out or changed by Shishya: Rows 1-15 (names and periods) read from the '75 Years of Finance Commissions' chairmen grid in the PDF; ordinal written out in words for the key (PDF prints '1st', '2nd'...). Sixteenth row read from https://fincomindia.nic.in/commission-reports-sixteenth ('Dr. Arvind Panagariya, Chairman of the 16th Finance Commission of India'); its period is not printed there so the key has no years. Honorifics (Shri/Dr./Prof./Sh.) kept as printed; cross-checked 1,3-14 against per-commission composition pages on fincomindia.nic.in (2nd and 15th pages have no composition table).
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