The establishment of the Central Vigilance Commission for advising and guiding Central agencies in the field of vigilance is based on the recommendation of the committee headed by whom?

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Correct — B, K. Santhanam. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) was set up in 1964 by a Government of India resolution, acting on the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption (1962–64) — popularly called the Santhanam Committee after its chairman, K. Santhanam. The CVC was designed as the apex body to advise and guide central government agencies in vigilance matters; it gained statutory backing only later, through the Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Known for founding the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) — child-rights work, unconnected to the CVC's origin.  (c) Associated with the National Commission for Women, not with vigilance/anti-corruption administration.  (d) Known as the first Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (and later chaired the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities) — a human-rights/minorities background, not the CVC's founding committee.

Concept: The CVC is India's apex vigilance body, set up in 1964 on the Santhanam Committee's recommendation to advise and coordinate the vigilance work of central government agencies. It does not itself investigate cases — that is the CBI's job — but exercises superintendence over the Delhi Special Police Establishment's anti-corruption investigations under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

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