List of Zonal Councils, its member states and headquarters
Q. Headquarters for Western Zonal Council is located at -- Published on 27 Feb 17a. Gandhinagar
b. Mumbai
c. Panaji
d. Ahmedabad
ANSWER: Mumbai
- Northern Zonal Council includes the states Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, and Chandigarh with headquarters at New Delhi.
- Central Zonal Council includes the states Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh with headquarters at Allahabad.
- Eastern Zonal Council includes the states Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa with headquarters at Kolkata.
- Western Zonal Council includes the states Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu with headquarters at Mumbai.
- Southern Zonal Council includes the states Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry with headquarters at Chennai.
- North-Eastern Council - In addition to the above Zonal Councils, a North-Eastern Council was created by a separate Act of Parliament - the North-Eastern Council Act of 1971.
- It came into existence on August 8, 1972.
- Its members include Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim.
- Its functions are similar to those of the zonal councils, but with few additions.
- It has to formulate a unified and coordinated regional plan covering matters of common importance.
- It has to review from time to time the measures taken by the member states for the maintenance of security and public order in the region.
