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Northern Zonal Council

zonal council in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ25344808 ↗
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Northern Zonal Council is a zonal council that comprises the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan; the union territories of Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

The States have been grouped into six zones having an Advisory Council to foster cooperation among these States. Five Zonal Councils were set up vide Part-III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.

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“Northern Zonal Council” enters the record as zonal council in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Northern, Zonal and Council can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Northern Zonal Council” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.