Prime Minister Narendra Modi will convene a meeting of the Inter-State Council tomorrow. It will deliberate on issues of internal security, economic and social planning, and inter-state relations among other issues. He will be in a closed room meeting with all the 31 Chief Ministers. The meeting tomorrow is the first  in ten years of India's Inter-State Council. Set up in 1990, the group brings together the PM, six of his cabinet ministers, and all Chief Ministers and administrators of union territories to discuss the coordination of schemes and policies. The PM is likely to seek the Chief Ministers' feedback and support for the crucial Goods and Services Tax or  GST, a landmark tax reform, that the government wants to clear in the 20 sitting monsoon session that begins on Monday.

The last meeting of the Inter-State Council was held in 2006. The UPA government had convened just two meetings in its 10-year tenure. According to sources the Prime Minister is keen to exhibit his commitment to the  cooperative federalism empowering state governments. The PM reportedly wants to highlight the achievements of the aadhar scheme, which has created the world's largest biometric data base, and transfers cash subsidies directly to poor families, preventing money from being siphoned in huge welfare reform schemes.