Zonal Councils of India

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Zonal Councils of India

Zonal Councils are advisory councils and are made up of the states and union territories of India that have been grouped into five zones to foster cooperation among them. These were set up by Part-III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. [1]

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Members

The Union Home Minister of India is the common chairman each of the five zonal councils. Within the each zonal council, the chief minister of the respective member states act as the vice-chairman of the council by rotation, holding office for a period of one year at a time. The governor of a union territory within a zone are not appointed as the vice-chairman. [1]

Zonal councils

The present composition of each of these Zonal Councils is as under [1] [2] :-

#NameNames of member states, UTs (marked *) & special invites (marked ^)Number of statesNumber of UTs (includes NCT-Delhi)Headquarters [3] Notes
1. Northern Zonal Council 44 New Delhi
2. Southern Zonal Council 53 Chennai Covers Peninsular India. union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep are not members of any of the Zonal Councils. [4] However, they are presently special invitees to the Southern Zonal Council. [5]
3. Central Zonal Council 40 Prayagraj
4. Eastern Zonal Council 40 Kolkata
5. Western Zonal Council 31 Mumbai
6. North Eastern Council 80 Shillong Northeastern states are not covered by any of the Zonal Councils and their special problems are addressed by another statutory body, the North Eastern Council at Shillong, created by the North Eastern Council Act, 1971. [6] This council originally comprised Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura; later the state of Sikkim was also added vide North Eastern Council (Amendment) Act, 2002 notified on 23 December 2002. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Zonal Council". Archived from the original on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  2. ↑ M Laxmikanth (2020). Indian Polity (6th ed.). McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited. p. 15.5. ISBN   978-93-89538-47-2.
  3. ↑ "The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Act No.37 Of 1956)" (PDF). Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Present Composition of the Southern Zonal Council" (PDF). Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "NEC -- North Eastern Council". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Zonal Council |". mha.nic.in. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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