24th meeting of Eastern Zonal to be held in Bhubaneshwar today

The 24th meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council comprising of  Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal will be held in Bhubaneswar today. Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the meeting. Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik is the Vice-Chairman and host.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will participate in the meeting.

The Chief Ministers will be accompanied by two Cabinet Ministers from each state as members of the Council and Chief Secretary and other senior officers of the states. The Secretaries and Additional Secretaries and other senior officers of the Central Government will also attend the meeting.

The meeting will



deliberate upon several issues which include inter-state water issues, power transmission lines, royalty and operationalization of coal mines, land and forest clearance of rail projects and investigation of heinous offences. Cattle smuggling across country’s borders, lack of telecom and banking infrastructure in remote areas, petroleum projects, sharing pattern on centrally collected revenues are also in the agenda for discussion.

Home Minister Amit Shah will address a rally at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar this afternoon in support of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). 

Tomorrow, he will visit the Jagannath Temple at Puri and Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar before leaving for New Delhi.