Zonal Councils are advisory councils and are made up of the states of India that have been grouped into five zones to foster cooperation among them. These were set up vide Part-III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
The Union Home Minister is the common chairman of five zonal councils. Each chief minister acts as a vice chairman of the council by rotation, holding office for a period of one year at a time.
Zonal councilsedit
The present composition of each of these Zonal Councils is as under:-[1]
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^M Laxmikanth (2020). Indian Polity (6th ed.). McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited. p. 15.5. ISBN978-93-89538-47-2.
^. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
^"Zonal Council |". mha.nic.in. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
^"The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Act No.37 Of 1956)" (PDF). Retrieved 16 November 2020.
^"Present Composition of the Southern Zonal Council" (PDF). Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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