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Inter-State Council
August 20 , 2019
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- The Inter-State Council, which is mandated to investigate and advise on disputes between states, has been “reconstituted” with Prime Minister as its chairman and six Union ministers and all chief ministers as members.
- The Chief Ministers of the Union territories (UT) having legislative assemblies and the administrators of UTs not having a legislative assembly will also be members of the council.
- Ten other Union ministers have been made permanent invitees to the council.
- The Article 263 of the Constitution provides for the establishment of an Inter-State Council.
Members |
Amit Shah (Home), Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance), Rajnath Singh (Defence), Narendra Singh Tomar (Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj).
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Other members |
Thaawar Chand Gehlot (Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment) Hardeep Singh Puri (Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs).
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Permanent invitees |
Nitin Gadkari (Minister of Road Transport and Highways), Ram Vilas Paswan (Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Minister of Law and Justice, Harmsimrat Kaur Badal (Minister of Food Processing Industries), Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (Minister of External Affairs), Ramesh Pokhriyal (Minister of HRD).
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Other permanent invitees |
Arjun Munda (Minister of Tribal Affairs), Piyush Goyal (Minister of Railways), Dharmendra Pradhan (Minister of Petroleum), Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (Minister of Jal Shakti).
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