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Durbar move offices reopen in Srinagar amid COVID-19 pandemic 7/7/2020 12:00:54 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 6: The Civil Secretariat, the seat of J&K administration, formally reopened in this summer capital on Monday amid COVID-19 pandemic that has so far claimed 136 lives in the Union Territory. Due to extraordinary circumstances in view of COVID-19, civil secretariat at Jammu will continue to remain functional as only 19 government departments which are part of the Durbar Move have been shifted to Srinagar this year while as 18 other departments will continue to function from the winter capital. Most political parties -- including National Conference (NC), PDP, J&K Awami Party (JKAP) and Congress -- have criticised the government decision, claiming that it would deepen the misunderstanding between Kashmir and Jammu regions. Meanwhile, security has been beefed up outside and along the roads leading to the Civil Secretariat to foil any militant attack. Dog squads of security forces were checking the perimeter outside the road leading to the Civil Secretariat. J&K is the only UT in the country which has two capitals so the seat of the government and related offices shift every six months between Jammu and Srinagar as part of nearly 150-year-old practice known as ‘Darbar Move’. Traffic on the roads leading to the Civil Secretariat witnessed an increase with the local employees coming in their own private vehicles instead of SRTC buses. The Civil Secretariat and other Move offices had closed in the summer in the last week of October 2019 and reopened in the winter capital. However, the Darbar move officers, which were support to shift to Srinagar in the month of April, remained stationed in Jammu due to COVID-19 outbreak. Then the Civil Secretariat partially reopened on May 5. As per the schedule, the move offices closed in Jammu on June 26 and reopen in Srinagar on Monday. The General Administration Department (GAD) in continuation to government order 626-JK (GAD) of June 8, had ordered that the departments will “primarily function from the headquarters along with the records”.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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