Which committee has been constituted to give recommendations on Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM)?

Which committee has been constituted to give recommendations on Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM)?
[A]Ajay Shankar committee
[B]NR Madhava Menon committee
[C]N.K. Singh committee
[D]H Devaraj committee

N.K. Singh committee
The Union Government has recently constituted a 5-member committee to comprehensively review and give recommendations on the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) roadmap for the future. The committee will be headed by former Revenue and Expenditure Secretary N.K. Singh. The committee will examine the need and feasibility of having a ‘fiscal deficit range’as the target in place of the existing fixed percentage of GDP and make specific recommendations. It will also examine the need and feasibility of aligning the fiscal expansion or contraction with credit contraction or expansion respectively in the economy and submit its report by October 31, 2016.

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