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| Jammu gets facelift ahead of annual Darbar Move | | | Jammu, Oct 24: Streets in this winter capital of the state are getting a customary makeover while traffic department has started a process of erecting new road dividers besides regulating vehicular movement ahead of annual Darbar Move offices scheduled to reopen here on November 9. The offices will close in Summer Capital (Srinagar) on October 30 and reopen on November 9 here with traditional guard of honour and customs.
The government machinery, after virtual slumber for six months, seems to have woken up as labourers work hard to give a new look to roadside railings, footpaths and road dividing lanes.
Apart from the streets, ministers' official bungalows and employees' quarters are also getting facelift for the bi-annual event. Around 10,000 employees and truckloads of the office records have to undergo the bi-annual move exercise as part of more than a century old practice. The trend of shifting State secretariat from one state capital to another has been going on in the state since 1872, the era of Maharaja Gulab Singh and devours crores of rupees from state exchequer every year. State Road Transport Corporation authorities have been directed to make adequate number of buses available for the employees moving to Srinagar while it has been asked to make trucks available for carrying official records to the summer capital.
The practice costs the state exchequer an estimated Rs 20 crore every year for facilitating the movement of the nearly 10,000 employees from Srinagar to Jammu at the onset of winter and back to Srinagar ahead of summer
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