Zonal Councils

✅Zonal councils are statutory bodies (not constitutional) 

✅ These councils are established under the Act of parliament. 

✅These councils play a very significant 

✅ There are five zonal councils setup under the part III of the state reorganisation, Act 1956 . These are following. 

1. Northern Zonal Council — Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and 

Kashmir, Rajasthan, NCT of Delhi & Chandigarh .

✅ Its head office is in New 

Delhi . 

2. The Central Zonal Council — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh . 

✅Its headquarter is in Allahabad. 

3. The Eastern Zonal Council — Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim 

✅Its headquarter is in Kolkata . 

4. The Western Zonal Council — Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Daman and Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli . 

✅Its headquarter is in Mumbai. 

5. The Southern Zonal Council — Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puduchery . 

✅Its headquarter is in Chennai

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