Expert Group on programmes for the alleviation of poverty

Task force for the study of eco-development in the Himalayan Region

Task Force for developing an eco-development plan for Goa

Committee for the development of water resources of Western Ghats

Expert Group on perishable agricultural commodities

Study Group on fuel wood requirements

Working Group on control of blindness (1981)

Working Group on control of leprosy (1981)

Chairman, Science Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of India (1980-82)

Chairman, National Biotechnology Board (1981-82)

Member, National Commission on Agriculture (1971-77)

Chairman, Steering Committee for Environment and Forestry of the Planning Commission (1988-89)

Chairman, Core Committee for the preparation of a National Environment Policy, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (1989-90)

Chairman, High Level Committee for the review of the Central Ground Water Board (1989-90)

Chairman, Expert Group for the preparation of a draft national population policy (1993-94)

Chairman, Government of India Committee for Research on Agricultural Exports in the context of the World Trade Agreement (1994 –97)

Chairman, Government of India Committee on Remedying Regional Imbalances in Agriculture (1996-98)

Chairman, Committee to restructure agricutural education (1996-97)

Chairman, Committee to draft a National Biodiversity Act (1998)

Chairman, Tenth Plan Steering Committee in the area of Agriculture and allied sectors (2000-2001)

Chairman, Task Force for a National Policy for Agricultural Biotechnology (2004)

Chairman, Expert Group for a Review of Coastal Zone Regulation (2005)

Chairman, Task Group on Revamping and Refocussing National Agricultural Research System (2005)