Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday received a rousing reception at the civil secretariat in Jammu upon his arrival to assume office in the winter capital. This marked his first official visit to the Jammu Secretariat since taking office as the CM of Jammu and Kashmir on 16 October in Srinagar.
The new system has been introduced particularly for quick clearance of files following discontinuation of age-old "Durbar Move" under which government offices used to shuttle between Jammu and Srinagar during winters and summers respectively.
The "Darbar Move" was started by the then Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872 to escape the extreme summer heat in Jammu and the biting cold of winters in Srinagar and the practice was continued by the elected governments post-independence.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday began functioning here after shifting from Srinagar, the summer capital of the state,…
The BJP on Tuesday called for abandoning the pre-Independence, bi-annual practice of 'darbar move', under which the Jammu and Kashmir…
