Zonal Councils

  • On 24th June 2025, the Union Home Minister chaired the 25th Central Zonal Council meeting in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
  • Zonal Councils are statutory bodies (not constitutional) established under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, as a high-level advisory forum to foster cooperative working among states and to create a healthy inter-State and Centre–State environment.
  • The idea of Zonal Councils was first proposed by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956 during debates on the States Reorganisation Commission’s (Fazal Ali Commission, 1953) Report.
  • Under Sections 15 to 22 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, five Zonal Councils were established.
  • The North Eastern region has a separate ....
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