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23rd meeting of Western Zonal Council
May 4 , 2018
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- The 23rd meeting of Western Zonal Council was held at Gandhinagar, Gujarat under the chairmanship of Union home minister Rajnath Singh.
- Zonal Councils are a statutory body set up under the States Reorganization Act, 1956)
- Zonal Councils were established to foster Inter-State co-operation and co-ordination among the States.
- Currently, there are total five zonal councils viz. Northern, Western, Eastern, Central and Southern.
- They are not constitutional bodies and they are only deliberative and advisory bodies with Union Home Minister as its chairman.
- The northeastern states are not included in these five zonal Councils. Their special problems are looked after by North Eastern Council, set up under the North Eastern Council Act, 1972.
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