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Amit Shah chairs Eastern Zonal Council meet, focuses on settlement of long-pending issues

Ranchi, July 10 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah today chaired the 27th meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council in Ranchi. The meeting was attended by Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, and West Bengal Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya.
Chief Secretaries of the four member states—Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal—along with senior officials from the Centre also participated.
Organised by the Inter-State Council Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs in coordination with the Jharkhand government, the meeting focused on long-pending inter-state issues, including water resource sharing, asset division of PSUs post Bihar’s bifurcation, and implementation of new criminal laws.
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