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On Wednesday, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah held a three-hour meeting with representatives of civil societies.
The Omar Abdullah government of Jammu and Kashmir is preparing to restore the state’s 150-year-old Darbar Move tradition.
On Wednesday, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah held a three-hour meeting with representatives of civil societies.
After the meeting he told that he will restart the Darbar move. Jammu has its own importance and we will not let its uniqueness diminish.
He said that I am not able to understand why this issue was not included by the parties in the campaign for the assembly elections. Discussions regarding this have intensified only after the election results came out. We had included this issue in our manifesto.
LG Manoj Sinha had ended the tradition in 2021
The 152-year-old tradition of changing the capital between Srinagar and Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir was started in 1872 by Maharaja Ranbir Singh of the Dogra dynasty of Jammu and Kashmir. LG Manoj Sinha ended this tradition in June 2021.
Under this tradition, the capital was shifted to Srinagar in summer and Jammu in winter. This was done to avoid cold and heat. Due to the transfer of the capital, business in both Srinagar and Jammu remained booming for 6-6 months.
Two months ago, sources associated with the Jammu and Kashmir Ministry had told Dainik Bhaskar that the Abdullah government may soon take a decision on the restoration of the Darbar Move tradition.
King Ranbir Singh of the Dogra dynasty officially started the Darbar Move tradition.
Farooq Abdullah tried to stop the tradition, there was protest
In the year 1987, the then Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah had tried to stop this tradition. He had also issued orders to keep the secretariat in Srinagar for the whole year. But his decision was strongly opposed. There were massive demonstrations in Jammu. Later Farooq had to withdraw his order.
The court did not move even during Covid.
In 2020, for the first time in history, the court did not move in Jammu and Kashmir. During that time, the government had taken this decision after the situations arising due to Corona virus.
Although the annual Darbar was opened in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, on May 4, but the employees remained where they were. During this period, the Secretariat office worked in both Jammu and Srinagar.
The administration had canceled the allotment of houses allotted in the names of employees for Darbar Move in June 2021 after the completion of digitization of records of offices of more than three dozen departments.
These businessmen were very angry. When the Darbar came to Jammu in winter, thousands of employees from Kashmir and their families used to come to Jammu. There was hustle and bustle in the markets of Jammu for six months. Due to this, sales increased significantly.
During that time, the administration had claimed that by stopping the Darbar move, the government exchequer would save more than Rs 150-200 crore annually.
Every year in the first week of November the roads in Jammu leading to the Civil Secretariat were repaired. Bad traffic signals were improved. Hundreds of office premises were decorated.
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