Headquarters for Western Zonal Council is located at -

a. Gandhinagar

b. Mumbai

c. Panaji

d. Ahmedabad

ANSWER: Mumbai

Explanation:

Northern Zonal Council includes the states Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, and Chandigarh with headquarters at New Delhi.

Central Zonal Council includes the states Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh with headquarters at Allahabad.

Eastern Zonal Council includes the states Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa with headquarters at Kolkata.

Western Zonal Council includes the states Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu with headquarters at Mumbai.

Southern Zonal Council includes the states Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry with headquarters at Chennai.

North-Eastern Council - In addition to the above Zonal Councils, a North-Eastern Council was created by a separate Act of Parliament - the North-Eastern Council Act of 1971.

It came into existence on August 8, 1972.

Its members include Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim.

Its functions are similar to those of the zonal councils, but with few additions.

It has to formulate a unified and coordinated regional plan covering matters of common importance.

It has to review from time to time the measures taken by the member states for the maintenance of security and public order in the region.