Govt all set to function in winter capital Jammu from today

As part of the pre-independence biannual practice of darbar move, the offices of Jammu and Kashmir government will start functioning in the winter capital Jammu from today. 

With the customary guard of honour to Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti at the Civil Secretariat, the capital of the state will formally start functioning from Jammu.The offices that observed five-day week were closed in

Srinagar, the summer capital on October 27 and those that observe six-day week were closed on October 29.Trucks and busses were pressed into service to ferry



official records and over 7000 employees to Jammu on October 28, 29 and 30 and November 5 and 6. 

Only one way traffic from Srinagar to Jammu was allowed to ply on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway to facilitate the smooth movement of the Darbar employees and the official records. 

The shifting of 'Darbar' or the seat of governance between the two capital cities of the state was started by the erstwhile Dogra ruler of the state Maharaja Ranbir Singh in 1872 to provide equitable governance to both the capitals of the state.