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| Tit-bits on reducing expenses on bi-annual Durbar move | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 20: Is the century old Durbar move practice in Jammu and Kashmir a "waste"?Yes it is so if the latest tweet from Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah,is to be any guide.
In terms of monetary expenses the Government has to spend about Rs. 40 crores on the annual Durbar move and another Rs. 10 crores on the transportation of the office records.
But in terms of political importance the Durbar move practice cannot be given up. The State is already faced with the problem of regionalism and regional discrimination and if any State Government attempts at tampering with the century old practice it would simply invite trouble for it.This is what happened in 1987 when the then Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, planned to discard with the 139-year old Durbar move tradition.
Much water has flowed down the Jhelum and the Chenab since 1947 or 1987 and the current political and regional trends speak volumes about the dangers involved in any move to keep the Durbar permanently either in Srinagar or in Jammu.
In the past, tempers have run high when the successive State Governments attempted at keeping so offices stationed permanently in one of the two capitals. The problem was resolved when the Government finally started bifurcated some of the Departments.
Still employees and officials working in the Civil Secretariat and some Departments, including the police, vigilance, intelligence etc,come under the biannual Durbar move practices.
Ask any senior political leader about any possible solution for ending the waste they, including Omar Abdullah, are unaware of any solution.However,experts do have a solution. They say segregate all Government departments so that key Departments like the PWD, R&B, Health, Agriculture, Sericulture, Horticulture, Education, Social Welfare, Tourism, Industries, Sports, Medical Education, etc have two full-fledged wings, one for the Jammu region and the other for the Kashmir valley. As far as the Civil Secretariat is concerned Ministeries like Home, Education, Industries, Agriculture, Health, Revenue, Social Welfare and Forests are divided in such a way as Ministers of State holding the above mentioned portfolios remain permanently stationed in the two capitals. Let only the Cabinet Ministers come under the Durbar move practice.
Experts say that total digitisation of the Civil Secretariat records be carried out so that instead of files laptops are shifted from one capital to the other which would reduce the expenses on transportation of the office records by over 70 per cent.
Once these steps are taken in hand it would reduce the annual expenses on the Durbar move and gradually bring about administrative reorganisation of the State thereby diluting the anger against regional discrimination. |
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