Ahead of bifurcation, Jammu and Kashmir issues directive for Durbar move

Srinagar: Ahead of the state’s formal bifurcation into two Union Territories on October 31, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday announced elaborate measures for the annual Durbar move of its offices from Srinagar to winter capital Jammu.

Issuing a 19-point directive on how to go about the annual Durbar move, that entails one crore file papers being packed neatly, loaded on to trucks and buses, and moved to either summer capital Srinagar or winter capital Jammu, depending on the season, the administration says: “All the offices shall reopen at Jammu on November 4, a Monday.”

The laborious and expensive shifting process, which has been carried out for the past 70 decades, is set to end once the entire process is digitised very soon.

Teams of senior Central government officials have been camping in the state to chalk out ways to digitise the files and put them on the e-office portal, that will not only save crores of money during the Durbar moves, but also enable the administration work to be carried out from any place.

The directive says that the departments “shall ensure that records are properly packed in boxes/trunks and their keys should reach the advance parties at Jammu, well in time. The SSP, Security, Civil Secretariat shall furnish a list of defaulting departments in this regard to the Government (General Administration Department) at Jammu”.

It has directed the J&K State Road Transport Corporation to make available “sufficient number of buses in good condition for transportation of Jammu-based employees on October 26 and 27, 2019 and Kashmir-based employees on November 2 and 3”.

It also directs that the SRTC “shall also make available trucks for shifting the records from Srinagar to Jammu” and the departments “shall draw advance for meeting carriage and packaging charges”. “The loaded trucks shall leave for Jammu on October 27, a Sunday, in a convoy. (IANS)

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