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Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 3: Even as the darbar has moved to the winter capital here, a section of the strategically important Home Department will remain camped in Srinagar "for a while due to the prevalent security situation in militancy infested Kashmir.
Sources said in the wake of the situation arising in restive Kashmir out of the abrogation of the special status, one office of the Home department will be stationed in Srinagar to brief the Raj Bhawan in Jammu about the situation at ground zero.
At least one officer of the rank of commissioner is likely to head the "camp office" in Srinagar.
Sources said it was for the first time that such an arrangement has been put in place essentially to ensure peace in Kashmir.
A senior official told Early Times that the issue was discussed around a month ago, when it was decided that Home Department in totality cannot be moved to Jammu with the Civil Secretariat.
"Home department is the main department in the civil secretariat that forms a window between the police, other security agencies and the civil administration… Keeping in view its significance for a situation through which Kashmir is passing, a camp office has to be in the valley," said a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
Sources said the Home department was likely to work as a part of the winter secretariat that has been kept open Kashmir for the next six months when the seat of governance is in Jammu here.
"There are two reasons behind it. One, that Pakistani provocation has not ended in Kashmir and the even bigger concern is that the government looks ahead to restore normalcy in Kashmir at an earliest and that is something possible only when Home department has eyes and ears on the ground zero," the official added.
It is pertinent to mention that since the abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A, Kashmir is reeling under uneasy calm.
While the Modi government ensured that no civilian casuality takes place during the prevalent circumstances, normalcy is yet to restore completely in the region. |
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