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| Amidst tight security, clashes, Sectt opens in Srinagar today | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 3- The biannual ‘Darbar’ offices, including the civil secretariat, which houses the office of Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues, will re-open here tomorrow amid stringent security.
According to the reports a strengthened posse of police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force have been deployed in and around the Civil Secretariat— the area where offices of Omar Abdullah and his ministers are located.
Besides, reports said that a large number of police and CRPF have been deployed on the routes leading to the civil secretariat to keep a close watch on pedestrians and vehicles.
There is heavy deployment of cops and paramilitaries on the fly-over, over looking the secretariat, the reports added.
Police and the paramilitaries have also undertaken large scale sanitizing measures in a bid to foil any possible attempt by militants on the Darbar advent.
Pertinently, surveillance cameras stand installed in and around the secretariat to keep a close eye on sensitive areas and suspicious characters.
Unlike previous years, however no additional paramilitary companies have been deployed for the darbar event, officials said.
“There is no additional deployment of CRPF for the event,” Prabakar Tripathi, PRO CRPF, said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will attend the office here for the first time after being sworn-in as the 11th Chief Minister of the state in January this year. Omar assumed charge in Jammu as the offices had already shifted to the winter capital.
It will be for the first time that the incumbent Chief Minister would receive a guard of honour at the Civil Secretariat here.
For last couple of weeks, Srinagar, the summer capital of the city, is undergoing a facelift and fresh instructions for vehicles and pedestrians was issued as the seat of the government shifts for half a year in the scenic valley.
Labourers remained at work to repair embankments, potholed roads and pick over weeds from drainage system while sidewalks received a fresh coat of paint for the event.
Apart from the streets, ministers’ bungalows and employee quarters at Channapora, Tulsi Bagh, Magarmal Bagh, Bemina, Budshah and Jawahar Nagar were given a face lift for the bi-annual event.
The civil secretariat was closed in Jammu on April 24 and around 7,000 employees apart from truckloads of the office records have undergone the bi-annual move 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.
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