Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Monday chair a Central Zonal Council meeting in Bhopal where issues like connectivity, power, sharing of river water and o🃏ther matters of common interests will be discussed, officials said.
The Central Zonal Council comprises Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The meeting will be attended b🐠y chief ministers, ministers, chiꦛef secretaries, principal secretaries and senior officers of the member states and Central government, a home ministry official said.
There will be discussions on issues of common interests in areas of connectivity, power, river water s🍰haring and other matters, the official said. As per the established procedure and practice, the zonal coun🌌cil meeting is preceded by a standing committee of the council in which the agenda items to be placed before the council are scrutinised and prioritised.
MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a statement said Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanat𓆏h, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Dhami and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel are also arriving to take part in the meeting.
It is an important meeting in which the welfare of S🌳cheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, farmers' welfare, crime against women and childr▨en, internal security and prevention of terrorism and Naxalism will be discussed at length, which will benefit all the four states, Chouhan said.
The Narendra Modi government has bee🏅n regularly holding meetings of the zonal councils as a part of its overall strategy to strengthen and promote cooperative and competitive federalism in the country, another official said. There are five zonal councils in the country which were set up in 1957 under Section 15-22 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
Union home minister is𒀰 the chairman of each of these zonal councils and chief ministers of 🦹the host state (to be chosen by rotation every year) is the vice-chairman. Two more ministers from each state are nominated as members by the governor.
(With PTI inputs)
