Question: Which Article of the Constitution provides for the creation of Inter-state Council?
(a) Article 262
(b) Article 263
(c) Article 268
(d) Article 271
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- On November 1st, 2017, the inter-state council was reorganized under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- It is known that the Prime Minister is the ex-officio chairman of this council.
- Six Central Ministers and Chief Ministers of all the States have been included as members.
- The following are the six central ministers included in the Council: Rajnath Singh (Home Minister), Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs Minister), Arun Jaitley (Finance Minister), Nitin Gadkari (Road Transport Minister), Thawar Chand Gehlot (Social Justice and Authorization) and Nirmala Sitharaman (Defense Minister)
- Chief Minister of all the states and Chief Ministers of the Union Territories of all the Legislative Assembly shall be the members of this Council.
- Apart from this, 8 Union Ministers have also been appointed permanent invitees.
- Article 263 of the Constitution provides for the creation of Inter-state Council.
- In the year 1988, on the recommendation Commission (Sarkaria Commission) constituted under the chairmanship of Justice R.S. Sarkaria the Inter-state Council was formed in the year 1990.
- The objective is to try to resolve the dispute arising on any issue between two or more states / center administered areas or center and between two or more states / center administered areas.
- Council provides a solution to the issues related to the interests of the interests and investigate the appropriate solutions.
- Apart from this, the policy is also recommended for better cooperation and appropriate action.
- On the same day, the Standing Committee of the Inter-state Council was reconstituted under the chairmanship of Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
- It is known that the Home Minister of India is the ex-officio Chairman of this committee.
- In this reconstituted Standing Committee, four Union Ministers and seven Chief Ministers have been nominated members.
- This committee includes Union Ministers Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari and Thawar Chand Gehlot.
- There are chief ministers in this committee- N. Chandrababu Naidu (Andhra Pradesh), Amarinder Singh (Punjab), Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh), Manik Sarkar (Tripura), Naveen Patnaik (Odisha), Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan) and Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh).
Reference:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/inter-state-council-reconstituted-with-pm-as-chairman/1/1079763.html
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/interstate-council-reconstituted-with-pm-as-chairman/article9936184.ece
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/sPT6PbGlvwbd4kh0J9VOqJ/InterState-Council-reconstituted-with-Narendra-Modi-as-chai.html
http://interstatecouncil.nic.in/isc-genesis/