{"id":6135,"date":"2022-12-18T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:29:55","slug":"what-is-the-north-eastern-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-north-eastern-council\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the North Eastern Council?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the North Eastern Council:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>North Eastern Council (NEC) is under the administrative purview of the Ministry<strong> of Development of the North-Eastern Region (MDoNER).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NEC is not a constitutional body, but a statutory organization<\/strong> established under the North Eastern Council Act, 1971, as amended in 2002.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>nodal agency for the economic and social development<\/strong> of the North Eastern Region which consists of the eight States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.<\/li>\n<li>The Council comprises <strong>Governors and Chief Ministers of constituent States and three members nominated by the President.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who is the Chairman of Northeast Council?<\/h3>\n<p>The Union Home Minister is ex-officio Chairman and the MoS(IC) DoNER is the ex-officio Vice-Chairman of the NEC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1884485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEC is a statutory organisation for the economic &#038; social development of the North Eastern Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}