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{{Short description|Zones of India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2016}}

[[File:Zonal Councils.svg|thumb|300px|Western India Zonal Council in ''pink'']]
{{Politics of India}}

'''Western Zonal Council''' is a [[zonal council]] comprising the states of [[Goa]], [[Gujarat]], [[Maharashtra]] and the Union Territory of [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu]].<ref name="Indian Zonal Councils">{{Cite web |url=http://interstatecouncil.nic.in/zonal.htm |title=Zonal Council |access-date=12 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508170915/http://interstatecouncil.nic.in/zonal.htm |archive-date=8 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://interstatecouncil.nic.in/iscs/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/states_reorganisation_act.pdf |title=The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Act No.37 Of 1956)|access-date=16 November 2020}}</ref>

The States have been grouped into six zones having an Advisory Council to foster cooperation among these States. Five Zonal Councils were set up vide Part-III of the [[States Reorganisation Act]], 1956.<ref name="Indian Zonal Councils"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://necouncil.nic.in/ |title=NEC -- North Eastern Council |access-date=12 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415001111/http://necouncil.nic.in/ |archive-date=15 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Northern Zonal Council]]
* [[North-Eastern Zonal Council]]
* [[Central Zonal Council]]
* [[Eastern Zonal Council]]
* [[Southern Zonal Council]]

==References==
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[[Category:Zonal Councils]]

Western Zonal Council - Revision history

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