North-Eastern council

✅ States — Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh.

 

✅Its functions are same like the zonal councils. 

✅ On the recommendations of Sarkaria Commission, under the leadership of V.P. 

✅Sing Janata Dal Government established a interstate council in 1990 . 

✅Following are the members in it 

(i) Chairman – Prime Minister 

(ii) Chief Ministers of all states 

(iii) Chief Ministers of Delhi & Puducherry 

(iv) Six Union Cabinet Ministers including the Home Minister 

✅ The council should held at least three meetings in a year. 

✅The council has a permanent committee. It is established in 1996 .

✅The committee has the following members — 

(i) Chairman – Home Minister 

(ii) Five Cabinet Ministers 

(iii) Nine Chief Ministers 

✅ The council has a secretariat to help it. It is called the inter-state council secretariat. 

✅It is established in 1991 .

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