The northern zonal council meeting scheduled to be held under the chairmanship of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on September 3 in the city has been postponed.
The meeting was to be attended by the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and the Administrator of union territory of Chandigarh.
A senior officer of UT Administration confirmed that the meeting has been postponed and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs will decide the new schedule later.
Among key issues related to the city included in the agenda for the meeting were renaming of civil air terminal at Chandigarh, direct connectivity with the Chandigarh international airport, construction of ring road and release of grants to Panjab University.The inter-state issues included boundary dispute between Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, enhancing capacity of head regulator of Indira Gandhi Feeder at Harike among others.The previous northern zonal council meeting was held under the chairmanship of the then Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in 2017 in Chandigarh.