New Delhi [India], December 9 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the twenty sixth assembly of the Eastern Zonal Council in Bihar’s capital on Sunday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) mentioned on Saturday.
The Eastern Zonal Council contains the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. The assembly is being organized by the Inter-State Council Secretariat beneath the MHA in collaboration with the federal government of Bihar.
“The 26th meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council will be attended by the Chief Ministers of the member states along with two senior ministers from each state. The Chief Secretaries and other senior officers of the state governments and senior officers of the Central government will also participate in the meeting,” the MHA mentioned in an announcement.
Five Zonal Councils have been established in 1957 beneath Section 15-22 of the States Reorganization Act, 1956. Union Home Minister is the Chairman of those 5 Zonal Councils, whereas the Chief Ministers of the states and the administrator in addition to Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territories from the respective Zonal Council are its members, certainly one of whom is the Vice-Chairman by rotation yearly.
Two extra ministers from every state are nominated by the Governor as members of the council. Each Zonal Council has additionally constituted a standing committee on the degree of Chief Secretaries. The Chief Minister of Bihar is the Vice Chairman of the twenty sixth assembly of the Eastern Zonal Council.
The points proposed by the states are first offered for dialogue earlier than the Standing Committee of the involved Zonal Council. Issues that can’t be resolved by mutual consent are offered for dialogue within the Zonal Council assembly.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has confused the necessity to leverage cooperative and aggressive federalism to attain all-round improvement. Zonal Councils imagine that robust states create a powerful nation and supply a platform and systematic mechanism for normal dialogue and dialogue on points affecting two or extra states or the Center and the states.
Over the final 9 years, since 2014, a complete of 55 conferences of varied Zonal Councils have been held together with 29 conferences of Standing Committees and 26 conferences of Zonal Councils.
The Zonal Councils play an advisory position, however over time these councils have emerged as an essential mechanism for selling mutual understanding and cooperation in numerous fields.
In council conferences many essential selections are taken such because the minimal assist value of Kodo, Kutki and different minor millet crops at par with Ragi, the discharge of the National Framework for Sediment Management in 2022 by the Ministry of Jal Shakti beneath the Comprehensive Silt Management Policy, the choice by the State Level Technical Committee to resolve the dimensions of finance for lac cultivation and to incorporate lac cultivation in Kisan Credit Card from 2022-23.
The Zonal Councils focus on a variety of points together with mining, central monetary help on sure objects, creation of infrastructure, land acquisition and land switch, water sharing, implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme (DBT), state reorganization and different issues of frequent curiosity on the regional degree.
Many problems with nationwide significance are additionally mentioned in each assembly of the Zonal Councils. These embody operationalization of Fast Track Special Courts (FSTC) for fast investigation and speedy disposal of rape instances in opposition to girls and kids, facility of banks and India Post Payment Bank branches inside 5 km of each village, formation of two lakh new Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACSs) within the nation, eliminating malnutrition amongst youngsters by means of diet marketing campaign, lowering the drop-out charge of college youngsters, participation of presidency hospitals in Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and different problems with frequent curiosity on the nationwide degree. (ANI)