{"id":320572,"date":"2020-02-28T04:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T04:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320572"},"modified":"2020-02-28T04:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T04:13:03","slug":"amit-shah-to-chair-24th-eastern-zonal-council-meeting-in-bhubaneswar-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amit-shah-to-chair-24th-eastern-zonal-council-meeting-in-bhubaneswar-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Amit Shah to chair 24th Eastern Zonal Council meeting in Bhubaneswar today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/amit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-1.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>The 24th\u00a0meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council, comprising of the States of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, is scheduled to be held today at Bhubaneswar.\u00a0Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair this meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The upcoming meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council will deliberate upon nearly 4 dozen issues which\u00a0inter alia\u00a0include inter-State water issues, power transmission lines, royalty on &amp; operationalization of coals mines, land &amp; forest clearance of rail projects, investigation of heinous offences, cattle smuggling across country\u2019s borders, lack of telecom &amp; banking infrastructure in remote areas, petroleum projects, sharing pattern on centrally collected revenues etc. With such senior level participation of political leadership and officers, a large number of issues are likely to get resolved by consensus in the meeting, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Five Zonal Councils were set up in the year 1957 under Section 15-22 of the States Reorganization Act, 1956.\u00a0 The Union Home Minister is the Chairman of each of these 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Zonal Councils and Chief Minister of the host State, to be chosen by rotation every year, is the Vice-Chairman.\u00a0 Two more Ministers from each State are nominated as Members by the Governor.\u00a0 The Council takes up issues involving Centre and States, and among Member-States falling in the Zone and thus provide a forum for resolving disputes and irritants between them, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Zonal Councils discuss broad range of issues, which include boundary related disputes, security, infrastructure related matters like road, transport, industries, water and power etc., matters pertaining to forests &amp; environment, housing, education, food security, tourism, transport, etc., it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik is the Vice-Chairman and host.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Ministers of Bihar, West Bengal and Jharkhand will also participate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Ministers will be accompanied by two Cabinet Ministers from each State, as members of the Council, and Chief Secretary &amp; other senior officers of the States. Secretaries\/Additional Secretaries and other senior officers of the Central Government will also attend the meeting.\u00a0 Last meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council was last held in Kolkata on October 1, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 24th\u00a0meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council, comprising of the States of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, is scheduled to be held today at Bhubaneswar.\u00a0Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair this meeting.\u00a0 The upcoming meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council will deliberate upon nearly 4 dozen issues which\u00a0inter alia\u00a0include inter-State water issues, power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014],"tags":[1194,5172,2174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320573,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320572\/revisions\/320573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}