North Eastern Council

North Eastern Council shown in deep blue alongside the five Zonal Councils

North Eastern Council (NEC) is a statutory advisory body constituted under the North Eastern Council Act 1971 and came into being on 8 August 1972 at Shillong.[1] The eight States of Northeast India viz. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, are members of the council, with their respective Chief Ministers and Governors representing them. Sikkim was added to the council in the year 2002.[2] The headquarters of the council is situated in Shillong and functions under the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DONER) of the Government of India.[3]

  1. ^ "Establishment of North Eastern Council". Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Sikkim becomes eighth state under NEC". The Times of India. 10 December 2002. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ^ Organisations Archived 2010-07-23 at the Wayback Machine DoNER.