Administrative Reforms that changed India

1773 - Regulating Act
1793 - Cornwallis Code

1813 - Charter Act ( Abolition of Monopoly of trade)
1833 - Charter Act

1853 - Entrance Exam for Civil Service
1854 - Macaulay Committee.
1858 - Government of India Act ( Abolition of Court of Directors)
1860 - Indian Penal Code

1861 - Indian Police Act
1861 - Indian Councils Act ( Introduction of Portfolio System)

1882 - Lord Ripon's resolution - Magna Carta of Urban Governance)
1886 - Aitchison Commission (Abolition of covenanted and non-covenanted)

1909 - Morley Minto Reforms ( Communal Electorate)
1919 - Montagu Chelmsford ( Dyarchy)
1921 - Acworth Committee (Separation of railway budget)
1923 - Lee Commission ( Federal PSC)

1935 - Govt. of India Act (All India Federation)
1938 - National Planning Committee

1947 - All India Services (AIS)
1949 - Department of Organization and Methods (O&M)

1950 - Planning Commission
1951 - First Five Year Plan
1952 - National Development Council
1952 - Community Development Programme
1953 - National Extension Scheme.
1954 - Balwant Rai Mehta Committee (Democratic Decentralization)
1953 - Constitution of IIPA.
1956 - State Reorganization Act.

1963 - Constitution of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
1964 - Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
1966 - First ARC (Chair - K. Hanumnthaiah)
1969 - Nationalization of Banks

1971 - Abolition of Privy Purses.
1976 - Departmentalization of Accounting Process.
1976 - The 42nd Amendment Act (Mini Constitution)
1978 - The 44th Amendment Act

1983 - Sarkaria Commission
1985 - Central Administrative Tribunal
1988 - Prevention of Corruption Act.

1991 - New Economic Policy
1993 - Election Commission made into a multi member body
1993 - The 73rd and 74th Amendment Act
1993 - National Human Rights Commission
1993 - Third Judges Case - Collegium System
1996 - Panchayat extension to Scheduled Areas

2003 - CVC Act.
2003 - Fiscal responsibility and budget management.
2005 - Right to Information
2005 - Disaster Management Act
2006 - Prakash Singh vs Union of India (Police Reforms)
2006 - National e-Governance Plan (NeGP)
2008 - 2nd Administrative Reforms Commisison (ARC)
2009 - Right to Education

2013 - TSR Subramanyam V Union of India on Civil Services Reforms
2013 - National Food Security Act.
2015 - NJAC