Raja, Rural Development Minister C.P. Joshi, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja, Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal are its other members.

The new committee has been set up against the backdrop of the Prime Minister's Office starting a delivery monitoring unit to review the government's flagship programmes and iconic projects.

Its main task is to ensure effective delivery of programmes with outputs from ministries concerned, fast-track implementation, ensure trouble-shooting through periodic reviews and give a quarterly performance report to the prime minister.