J&K Secretariat's Bi-Annual Darbar Move To Begin On October 25

As part of the bi-annual "Darbar Move", under which the Jammu and Kashmir government functions for six months each in Jammu and Srinagar, all move offices, including the civil secretariat and the Raj Bhavan, will close in Srinagar on October 25-26 and reopen in Jammu on November 4, an official order said on Tuesday.
This will be the first "Darbar Move" after the removal of Jammu and Kashmir's special status and its bifurcation into Union territories in August, which also gave rise to the speculation that the governor's administration was planning to do away with the century-old practice that costs the state exchequer huge money annually.

The order said the General Administration Department (GAD), the Home, Hospitality and Protocol, Estates, Information Technology, Information departments as well as the National Informatics Centre would identify a few officers and staff, who would stay in Srinagar till November 1 in view of the impending formation of the two new Union territories — Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh — on October 31.

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