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            The Government has reconstituted the Inter State Council (ISC) and the Standing Committee of the Inter State Council under Clause 2 of the Inter State Council order,1990.

The Prime Minister has approved the following composition of the Inter State Council.

Chairman

Shri Narendra Modi                            Prime Minister

Members

(i)                 Chief Ministers of all States.

(ii)               Chief Ministers of Union Territories having a Legislative Assembly and Administrators of Union Territories not having Legislative Assembly.

Six Union Ministers

a)      Shri Rajnath Singh                  Minister of Home Affairs

b)      Smt.Sushma Swaraj                Minister of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs

c)      Shri Arun Jaitley                     Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting

d)     Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu          Minister of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs

e)      Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari       Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping

f)       Shri Manohar Parrikar             Minister of Defence.

Union Cabinet Ministers/Minister of State (Independent charge) as Permanent invitees.

a)      Shri Suresh Prabhu                              Minister of Railways

b)      Shri D.V.Sadananda Gowda              Minister of Law & Justice

c)      Shri Ramvilas Paswan                         Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution  

d)     Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad                   Minister of Communications & IT

e)      Smt.Harsimrat Kaur Badal                 Minister of Food Processing Industries

f)       Shri Jual Oram                                    Minister of Tribal Affairs

g)      Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot               Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment

h)      Smt.Smriti Zubin Irani                        Minister of Human Resource Development

i)        Shri Dharmendra Pradhan                  Minister of State(IC) for Petroleum and Natural Gas

 

j)        Shri Piyush Goyal                               Minister of State(IC) for Power, Coal and New    

and Renewable Energy.

 

k)      Smt.Nirmala Sitharaman                     Minister of State(IC) for Commerce and Industry

The Prime Minister has also approved the following composition of the Standing Committee of the Inter State Council.

Chairman

Shri Rajnath Singh                                          Minister of Home Affairs

Members

(i)                 Smt. Sushma Swaraj                     Minister of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs

(ii)               Shri Arun Jaitley                           Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting

(iii)             Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu               Minister of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation & Parliamentary Affairs.

 

(iv)             Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari             Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping

(v)               Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh

(vi)             Chief Minister, Punjab

(vii)           Chief Minister, Chattisgarh

(viii)         Chief Minister, Tripura

(ix)             Chief Minister, Odisha

(x)               Chief Minister, Rajasthan

(xi)             Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh

The Standing Committee will:

(i)                  have continuous consultation and process matters for consideration of the Council

(ii)               Process all matters pertaining to Centre State Relations before they are taken up for consideration in the inter-State Council.

(iii)             Monitor the implementation of decisions taken on the recommendations of the Council and

(iv)             consider any other matter referred to it by the Chairman/Council.

(v)               The Standing Committee may, if necessary, invite experts and persons eminent in specific  fields to have the benefit of their views while deliberation upon the related subjects.

 

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