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| Official records being shifted to Srinagar as Darbar Move offices close | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 1: The process of shifting of official records to Srinagar have started as annual Darbar Move offices closed here for six months.The Darbar Move offices closed here on April 29 and would reopen in Srinagar on May 9.
''An advance party of move employees have already proceeded towards the Kashmir Valley from April 23 but as the Darbar officially closed here on April 29, the records is being shifted now to the Srinagar,'' an official here today said.
He said all arrangements of shifting the records are reviewed by the administration and under tight security arrangements, they have been dispatched to the Summer Capital in trucks while a fleet of around 100 buses of State Road Transport Corporation will carry the move employees.
Around 10,000 employees and truckloads of the office records have to undergo the bi-annual move exercise as part of more than a century old practice.
The trend of shifting State secretariat from one state capital to another has been going on in the state since 1872, the era of Maharaja Gulab Singh and devours crores of rupees from state exchequer every year. The practice costs the state exchequer an estimated Rs 20 crore every year for facilitating the movement of employees from Jammu to Srinagar at the onset of summer and back to Jammu ahead of winter. |
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