The Union Home Minister chaired the 28th meeting of the Western Zonal Council in Panaji, Goa. Zonal Councils are statutory bodies set up under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 to foster Centre-State and inter-State cooperation. India has five: Northern, Central, Eastern, Western and Southern. The Western Council covers Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra and the UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, with Chief Ministers and two ministers from each State as members. Meetings are organised by the Inter-State Council Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs.