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| Dispense with luxury of Darbar move | | | | The civil secretariat which closed at Jammu on Friday for six months, will be opened in Srinagar on May 5. Similarly other move offices too have closed down here. Thus the secretariat and other move offices will remain closed for full 10 days, during which no official function will be conducted and files will remain packed. In fact even much before the close of secretariat and other move offices here, the working in these offices had almost remained suspended, in preparation for the move and files getting packed in the boxes for being transported to Srinagar. Similarly even after May 5 for about fill one week hardly any work will be conducted in the secretariat and other move offices, since the opening of boxes containing files and distribution of files on the proper desks and shelves will take at least this much of time. Then the employees will be mainly busy in settling their own selves instead of settling on work. The secretariat move to Srinagar is going to cost the public exchequer a heavy amount of Rs 35 crores. The state with poor financial resources, where employees very often do not get their salaries disbursed in time, shall have to bear such a heavy cost on the luxury of bi-annual Darbar move from Jammu to Srinagar and vise versa. The cost of housing the secretariat and other move offices at Srinagar, under the present scenario, is particularly very high in view of the fact that the Estates Department hires on rent many private hotels on high daily charges, for accommodating the officials. Then extra cost has to be borne on their boarding as well as on security arrangements. This is high time that the government thinks in terms of dispensing with the bi-annual Darbar move, which is the legacy of autocratic rule in the state. In the modern times of high technical development, when e-governance has been introduced in the functioning, the system of Darbar move should become redundant and out dated. Most of the departments have been since bifurcated, with separate heads for Jammu and Kashmir divisions. The remaining departments too should be bifurcated for speedy disposal of the cases and implementation of the schemes and projects as well as conduct of routine working. Similarly a system should be evolved, where the civil secretariat functions simultaneously at two places. While some secretaries can move by rotation for a fortnight each in a month from one head quarter to another, in their absence additional secretaries can be empowered to take decisions and dispose off the files. Much of the work can be done through e-governance. If the banking system and other financial institutions in the private sector can function through the network, without the need for personal presence of the individuals, why cannot some system be evolved for the government in the state to function in keeping with the modern day requirement. In view of elections to the state assembly to be held after about five months, most of the ministers will remain busy touring their respective constituencies and hence will hardly be available in the secretariat. Their getting stationed in Jammu or in Kashmir can be availed of for the purpose of their attending the secretariats at the respective places. |
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