Inter-State Relations

• Article 262: inter-state water disputes
• Article 263: inter-state disputes

• Set up u/a 263, but not permanent Constitutional body (think of ECI)
• Set up by a Presidential order in 1990, on recommendation of Sarkaria Commission
• To promote coordination, dialogue, etc.
• Representation:
• – From Centre, PM (Chairperson) + 6 Cabinet minsters (including HM)
• – All States (CM/Governor) & Union Territories (CM/Administrator)

• Yes, but its decision is advisory (SC decision u/a 131 is binding)

• set-up in 1996
• Union HM is Chairman
• 5 Union Cabinet ministers
• 9 CMs
• ISC — Constitutional (Article 263) — PM — --
• Five Zonal Councils — Statutory (States Reorganization Act, 1956) — Union HM — CMs by rotation
• North-Eastern Council — Statutory (North Eastern Council Act, 1971) — Union HM — MoS in Ministry of DoNER

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 2 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3

Answer: 1, 2 and 3

NDC, Planning Commission and Zonal Councils are all absent from the Constitution (Zonal Councils are statutory).

1. 1 and 2
2. 1, 2 and 3
3. 3 and 4
4. 4 only

Answer: 1 and 2

NDC and the Governors' Conference had no constitutional or legal basis; Zonal Councils are statutory and the ISC is constitutional. Answer keys differ across sources for this one; confirm before relying on it.

• Neither constitutional nor statutory body
• First meeting 1952; last 2012
• Composition similar to NITI's Governing Council
• No work assigned, no meetings