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| As Darbar moves security tighten along National Highway | | Secretariat, Move offices to close today; Darbar to open in Srinagar on May 4 | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, April 23 (NAK): Security has been intensified all along the 300 kilometer long Jammu-Srinagar national highway as the annual Darbar moves from Jammu to Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
Official sources said that security arrangements have been intensified keeping in view the fact that the vehicles carrying Darbar move employees and official record of civil secretariat will start moving from Jammu to Srinagar from Saturday, when the Darbar officially closes in Jammu.
Following the 135-year-old traditions of ‘Durbar move’ for six months to Jammu during winter and Srinagar in summer, all the government departments started packing up to move for the summer capital i.e. Srinagar for six months.
Traffic on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway from April 25, 26 to 27 would be one sided i.e., vehicular traffic from Jammu to Srinagar would be allowed while vehicles from Srinagar will not be allowed to move towards Jammu, a senior traffic police official told News Agency of Kashmir.
This decision was taken keeping in view security reasons, he said adding that all necessary steps have been taken to ensure safe movement of Darbar move vehicles on the highway.
Official figure reveals that 52 coaches of SRTC and two ambulances of the State Health Department would be pressed into service to ferry Move employees from Jammu to Srinagar.
The government has already announced that Darbar Move offices shall close in Jammu from April 24 and reopen at Srinagar on May 4. Advance parties, consisting of one gazetted officer and four or five non-gazetted officials, were already sent to Srinagar on April 18 and the advance parties will start functioning in Srinagar on Monday, April 27, 2009.
It is pertinent to mention here that all departments under the Jammu and Kashmir government will start operating from Srinagar from May 4, following the traditional bi-annual Darbar Move which witnesses the government machinery shifting from Jammu to Srinagar.
The power hub of the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, civil secretariat and other government offices will ceased functioning here on Friday as part of decades-old 'Darbar Move' to Jammu.
The Darbar Move is stated to be an age-old practice since Maharajas' time under which the government functions six months each from Srinagar and Jammu during summer and winter months of the year respectively.
Nearly, 10,000 government officials and employees will move to Srinagar for next six months.
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