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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2023 — General Studies · Question 47 of 200

Q47
Indian PolityCentre-State Relations & Fiscal Federalism
Which among the following was set up wide Part III of the States Re-organization Act 1956?
  1. a.Inter-state council
  2. b.Zonal council
  3. c.Language commission
  4. d.Sarkaria commission

Answer: (B) Zonal council

Zonal Councils are statutory (not constitutional) bodies created by Part III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. There are five — Northern, Central, Eastern, Western and Southern — each chaired by the Union Home Minister, with the Chief Ministers acting as vice-chairman by rotation; the North Eastern Council was set up separately by a 1971 Act. The Inter-State Council comes from Article 263 and was set up in 1990 on the Sarkaria Commission's recommendation; the Sarkaria Commission itself (1983) examined Centre–State relations; and the Official Language Commission was appointed under Article 344. (The booklet prints "wide" for "vide".)

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