Summer capital all set to reopen Durbar on May 10
Jammu, March 31
The Jammu and Kashmir administration is shifting base to summer capital Srinagar as part of the biannual Durbar move, and the civil secretariat, other move offices and the Raj Bhavan will start functioning there from May 10, officials said on Wednesday.
The practice of the Durbar move — under which the administration functions in Jammu during six months of winter and in Srinagar during summer — was started by Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872 to escape extreme weather conditions in the two regions.
“The move offices observing five-day week and six-day week will close in winter capital Jammu on April 30 and May 1 respectively. All the offices will reopen in Srinagar on May 10,” an official spokesperson said.
Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, who chaired a high-level meeting to review the preparations for the move here, said there would be a substantial reduction in the transportation of records during the exercise.
“The government has taken concrete steps to switch to paperless offices by rolling out e-office in the moving departments. As such, most of the official record has been uploaded to the e-office, and training of employees has begun,” he said. — PTI
