Overview
- Chief ministers, lieutenant governors and senior officials from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh are expected to attend.
- The agenda includes speedy investigation of sexual offences with Fast Track Special Courts, rollout of ERSS-112, village banking access, water sharing, electricity, education, nutrition and urban planning.
- Officials describe the zonal councils as shifting into action platforms under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve complex Centre–state and inter-state issues.
- The session follows a multi-agency recovery of a large explosives cache in Faridabad that investigators say is suspected to be linked to the November 10 Red Fort blast and to an accidental detonation in Nowgam.
- Each council routes issues through a chief secretaries’ permanent committee, with officials citing 63 meetings of zonal councils and their committees over the past 11 years.