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| Amid tight security Darbar starts functioning in Srinagar | | Governor accorded guard of honor | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 06: The highest seat of governance, including the office of Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Paul Malik , his advisors and top bureaucrats started functioning from summer capital, Srinagar, on Monday.
Governor Malik received the traditional guard of honour accorded by the police inside the Civil Secretariat premises to mark the opening of the offices. The administration had imposed prohibitory orders near the seat of government to stop any untoward incident. Governor reached the civil secretariat at 9.30 and stayed there for 15 minutes before he left the civil secretariat. On his arrival the traffic movement was halted for some time in the area.
Heavy security arrangements were made by the authorities .A large numbers of security personnel including SP's DySP's were deployed in and around the civil secretariat. Employees, putting in government accommodation and other hotels under heavy security arrangements were taken to their respective offices in State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) buses under security cover.
Meanwhile other move offices, which had closed in Jammu on April 26, also opened here as per the darbar move, a century-old practice under which government functions six month each in the two capitals. The government will function in the summer capital till late October and then move to Jammu, the winter capital of the state, in the first week of November. Officials said that that work will begin from 9.30 AM to 5 PM at the Civil Secretariat, adding that for other departments located outside the Secretariat, work will begin from 10 AM to 4 PM. Addressing media the Governor Satya Paul Malik said that it is painful that the political leaders have been killed in Kashmir valley.
However he said that the withdrawal of security from certain people and the killing of political workers in Kashmir valley cannot be interlinked. "Certain quarters are spreading rumors that the killings take place due to the security withdrawal. We saw smooth conduct of Sarpanch elections in the state. So militants now started targeted killings in the Valley" he said.
Governor further said that the people who were killed were never "categorised". "We will sit within few days time and discuss the withdrawal of security. Also, Chief Secretary will see if security withdrawal played any part in these killings or not," said Malik.
When asked about the assembly election in the state, Governor said that it is for the election commission to decide when to hold the elections in the state.
Replying to another question on the killing of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Anantnag district on Friday, Malik said security of political workers in the state was being reviewed. It is to mention here that civil Secretariat employees on the first day of Darbar move here boycotted the reopening ceremony as a mark of protest against the non-fulfillment of their long pending demands. |
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