Report of the Committee for Reforming the Regulatory Environment ...

into the need for such an organisation, the ability toman that organisation appropriately and to invest itwith functional autonomy. The experience of someregulatory authorities has been that in the guise ofadministrative accountability, functional autonomytends to get impeded and consequently regulatoryorganisations sometimes began to resemblesubordinate offices of the Government Ministries andDepartments.3.2 Setting up a new regulatory organisation shouldnot be a knee-jerk response to a specific situation orcontext, but a well thought-out disengagement plan ofthe Ministry or Department concerned to move awayfrom writing out and implementing regulations.3.3 In order to reinforce the confidence of theregulated universe and other stakeholders, regulatoryorganisations should undertake a self-evaluation ofthemselves once in three years, and put out the30