The 24th Eastern Zonal Council meeting under the chairmanship of Home Minister Amit Shah is in progress at the Lokseva Bhavan in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are partaking in the gathering while Finance Minister of Jharkhand Rameswar Oram is going to in the spot of Chief Minister Hemanta Soren.
The gathering has examined a few issues including between state water issues, power transmission lines, sovereignty on and operationalization of coals mines, land and timberland freedom of rail ventures, examination of deplorable offenses, cows carrying over nation’s fringes, absence of telecom and banking framework in remote zones, oil ventures, sharing example on midway gathered incomes and so forth.
During the gathering, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who is the Vice Chairman and host of the Eastern Zonal Council Meeting asked the Union Home Minister to give Focus-State Status to Odisha as it has been confronting various catastrophic events.
Patnaik likewise claimed for expanding banking, tele-thickness and coal sovereignty during the gathering.
The Chief Ministers of are joined by two Cabinet Ministers from each state as individuals from the gathering. The gathering will be trailed by the Home Minister’s location in a meeting at the Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar this evening on the side of the Citizenship Amendment Act.