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19/12/22 08:20 AM IST

25th Eastern Zonal Council meeting

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  • Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah presided over the 25th Eastern Zonal Council meeting in Kolkata recently.
Zonal Councils
  • They are statutory bodies established by an act of parliament (State reorganization Act of 1956)
  • The idea of creation of Zonal Councils was mooted by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1956 when during the course of debate on the report of the States Reorganisation Commission.
  • The home minister of central government is the common chairman of all the zonal councils
  • Other members include: The Chief Ministers of the States included in each zone act as Vice-Chairman of the Zonal Council for that zone by rotation, each holding office for a period of one year at a time, Chief Minister and two other Ministers as nominated by the Governor from each of the States and two members from Union Territories included in the zone.
  • At present there are six zonal councils– Northern, Central, Eastern, Western, Southern and North-Eastern
Aims/Objectives
  • Any matter of common interest in the field of economic and social planning;
  • Any matter concerning border disputes, linguistic minorities or inter-State transport;
  • Any matter connected with or arising out of, the reorganization of the States under the States Reorganisation Act.
Composition Of Zonal Councils
  • The Northern Zonal Council, comprising the States of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, National Capital Territory of Delhi and Union Territory of Chandigarh;
  • The Central Zonal Council, comprising the States of Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh;
  • The Eastern Zonal Council, comprising the States of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Sikkim and West Bengal;
  • The Western Zonal Council, comprising the States of Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra and the Union Territories of Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli;
  • The Southern Zonal Council, comprising the States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Source- PIB

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