{"id":6135,"date":"2026-06-05T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:44:39","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":"North Eastern Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>North Eastern Council Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the 73rd Plenary Session of the North Eastern Council (NEC) commenced in Shillong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About North Eastern Council<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was established under the <\/span><b>North Eastern Council Act, 1971.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>nodal agency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the economic and social development of the North Eastern Region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>States:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It consists of the <\/span><b>eight States<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, <\/span><b>Sikkim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Tripura.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Sikkim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was included as the eighth member state through <\/span><b>the NEC (Amendment) Act, 2002<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Composition<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ex-Officio Chairman:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Union Home Minister<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Ex-Officio Vice-Chairman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Minister of state, ministry of development of north eastern region (DoNER).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Members:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It comprises <\/span><b>governors <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&amp; chief ministers of constituent states and three members <\/span><b>nominated by the President.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Functions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It serves as the apex regional planning body for the North Eastern Region and plays a pivotal role in <\/span><b>fostering coordinated development and strengthening <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/cooperative-federalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">cooperative federalism<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/amit-shah-chairs-73rd-north-eastern-council-plenary-session-in-shillong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEC is a statutory organisation for the economic &#038; social development of the North Eastern Region. Read more about North Eastern Council, Composition, Members, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":106823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7976],"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":"tag-north-eastern-council","9":"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":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106876,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/106876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106823"}],"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}]}}