NRP Desk
Varanasi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday to ok a jibe at the Congress-led UPA govt by saying that com-pared to 2004-14 (when UPA was in office), about 83% of the issues discussed in zonal council meetings between 2014-25 have been resolved, which is an encouraging sign. Making this observation while chairing the 25th mee ting of the Central Zonal Council in Varanasi which was attended by CM Yogi Adityanath and his counterparts-Pushkar Singh Dhami of Uttarakhand, Mohan Yadav of Madhya Pradesh, and Vishnu Deo Sai of Chhattisgarh, the Union home minister also called upon the member states to eradicate child malnutrition, reduce the school dropout ratio to zero and strengthen cooperatives. “Between 2004 and 2014 only II meetings of the zonal councils and 14 meetings of the standing committees of the zonal councils were held. Compared to it, 28 zonal council meetings and 33 standing committee meetings were held between 2014 and 2025-marking a twofold increase,” said the home minister. As many as 1,287 issues were resolved in these mee-tings so far, which is both historic and encouraging, said Shah.
