PS BALI
Jammu, Nov 9: Amid tight security, the state civil secretariat would start functioning from tomorrow in the winter capital of Jammu, following 'Durbar Move', or the bi-annual shifting of the civil secretariat, Assembly and Raj Bhawan.
Closed down in Kashmir on October 30, offices of the civil secretariat, the Raj Bhawan, Assembly and the state police chief will resume work from Monday in Jammu for the next six months, keeping with an over 140-year-old practice.
Talking to Greater Kashmir, SSP Jammu, Uttam Chand said that three tier security arrangements have been put in place to ensure maximum security. He said, “Tight security measures have been put in place for the reopening of the offices with prohibitory orders having been imposed around the secretariat in view of reports that several organizations were planning anti-government rallies in the city,” he added that special battalions of CRPF, JKP and JKAP have been deployed to maintain law and order and to avoid any untoward incident. “Cameras are also installed at many places around secretariat to keep vigil,” he said.
He said that the vehicular movement on all the major roads heading towards civil secretariat had been diverted and restrictions had been placed on the pedestrian movement around front gate of the secretariat.
Barricades have been erected at and around civil secretariat to ensure hassle free VIP movement. “Timely restrictions have also been placed at many roads viz, Wazarhat road-Indira Chowk-Shalamar Chowk-Vivekanand Chowk to avoid traffic jams on prime hours,” said official.
In this regard a meeting of senior officials was also held, chaired by Director General of Police (DGP), K. Rajendra Kumar, wherein the security arrangements for re-opening of Civil Secretariat were reviewed.
The government will function in the winter capital till late April and then move back to Kashmir, the summer capital of the state, in the first week of May.
Meanwhile, this will be the last guard of honour for present government, as assembly elections are overhead and ministers, legislators are likely to skip offices amid poll buzz.
Sources said “Due to imposition of Model Code of Conduct (MCC), no major decision shall be taken by the ministers and legislators. Hence they are likely to remain absent from offices, busy in poll campaigning.”
Moreover, sources added that this time there will be no customary interactions between the chief minister and journalists due to the model code of conduct for the Assembly elections being in force. The media persons will not be allowed to enter the premises of the Civil Secretariat.
'Durbar Move' entails the state government functioning for six months each in the two capitals.
As many as 145 trucks and 40 mini buses had been deployed for ferrying official record and employees, respectively on 1st and 2nd November and on 8th and 9th November.
Extra buses and trucks were kept available during the move days, besides adequate number of cranes, mobile workshops, recovery vans, medical mobile teams, ambulances along with necessary equipment and staff deployed en-route to meet any exigency.
Pertinently the 'Darbar Move' practice was started by the erstwhile Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872 as an arrangement to evade the extreme weather conditions in Jammu during summer and in Srinagar for winter.
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