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Union Home Minister Amit Shah volition connected Monday (November 17, 2025) seat the 32nd gathering of the Northern Zonal Council successful Haryana's Faridabad, wherever issues similar education, health, electricity, speedy probe of cases of intersexual offences against women and children, among others, are apt to beryllium discussed.
The Northern Zonal Council comprises the States and Union territories of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh. Chief Ministers, Lieutenant Governors, Senior officials from the Central and State governments, and Union territories volition enactment successful the meeting.
The Zonal Councils supply an fantabulous forum for resolving and progressing issues and disputes betwixt the Centre and the subordinate States and Union territories, among the subordinate States and Union territories, and wrong the Zone, an authoritative connection said.
“The Zonal Council volition sermon wide issues of nationalist importance, including the speedy probe of cases of intersexual offences against women and children and the implementation of Fast Track Special Courts (FTSC) for their swift disposal, providing brick-and-mortar banking facilities wrong the designated country of each village, implementation of the Emergency Response Support System (ERSS-112),” the connection said.
Various regional-level communal involvement issues, specified arsenic strengthening nutrition, education, health, electricity, municipality planning, and the cooperative strategy volition besides beryllium discussed successful the meeting, which volition beryllium held connected the outskirts of the nationalist capital.
The Northern Zonal Council is among the 5 zonal councils established nether Sections 15 to 22 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
The Union Home Minister is the chairperson of the Northern Zonal Council, and the Chief Minister of Haryana is its Vice-Chairperson. The Chief Minister of 1 subordinate State (rotating each year) acts arsenic the Vice-Chairperson.
From each subordinate State, the politician nominates 2 Ministers arsenic members of the council. Each Zonal Council has besides formed a imperishable committee astatine the level of Chief Secretaries.
Issues projected by the States are initially presented to the imperishable committee of the acrophobic Zonal Council for discussion. After information by the imperishable committee, the remaining issues are past presented to the Zonal Council gathering for further deliberation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fixed the imaginativeness of 'TEAM BHARAT' and the Zonal Councils person been importantly contributing successful this direction, the connection said.
The relation of the Zonal Councils is advisory. However, implicit the past fewer years, these councils person proven to beryllium an important origin successful promoting steadfast bonds of communal knowing and practice successful assorted fields.
With the practice of each State governments, Central Ministries and departments, a full of 63 meetings of the assorted Zonal Councils and their imperishable committees person been held successful the past 11 years, the connection said.
