{"id":14746,"date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/10-04-2021\/durbar-move\/"},"modified":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","slug":"durbar-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/10-04-2021\/durbar-move","title":{"rendered":"Durbar Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the <strong>Union Territory <\/strong>(UT) of <strong>Jammu and Kashmir<\/strong> (J&#038;K) has decided to <strong>shift only sensitive records from Jammu to Srinagar in the summer<\/strong>, breaking the century and a half old tradition of the <strong>Durbar Move<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Traditional Durbar Move<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>bi-annual shifting of the Civil Secretariat <\/strong>and other offices of the government <strong>from Jammu to Srinagar in summer<\/strong>, and <strong>vice versa in winter<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This is done as <strong>J&#038;K has two capitals:<\/strong> Kashmir during summer and Jammu during winter.<\/li>\n<li>The tradition was reportedly started in the <strong>late 19th century <\/strong>by <strong>Ranbir Singh<\/strong>, a <strong>Dogra ruler<\/strong> of Jammu and Kashmir.\n<ul>\n<li>He <strong>hailed from Jammu<\/strong>, but had <strong>expanded the boundaries to Kashmir<\/strong> including what is now Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and Ladakh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rationale Behind the Shifting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are very<strong> different from one another geographically, linguistically and culturally<\/strong>, and were <strong>poorly connected by road<\/strong> in older days.<\/li>\n<li>The Durbar Move was started to <strong>take the administration to the doorstep of the people of Kashmir <\/strong>which is <strong>closer to Ladakh<\/strong>. During summer, ruling from Kashmir also helped in ensuring adequate supplies to Ladakh, which is closer to Kashmir than Jammu, <strong>before the winter snowfall would cut off Ladakh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The practice also <strong>enabled greater interaction and bonding<\/strong> among the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Concerns Highlighted<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the late 1980s, <strong>protests started over the amount of money and time spent <\/strong>on the exercise, however, the move against it had to be scrapped due to the public support for the tradition.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>2020<\/strong>, the <strong>J&#038;K High Court <\/strong>(HC) observed that there was<strong> no legal justification or constitutional basis for this tradition<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It observed that the practise has resulted in <strong>wastage of tremendous amount of time, efforts and energy<\/strong> on inefficient and unnecessary activity.<\/li>\n<li>The Division Bench also observed that<strong> valuable resources<\/strong> of the state (financial and physical) <strong>cannot be diverted to completely non-essential usage<\/strong> when the UT is unable to provide even basic essentials to its people.<\/li>\n<li>Upon rationalisation, the resources and time could be<strong> utilised towards the welfare and development of the UT<\/strong> and can <strong>address issues<\/strong> like <strong>food shortage<\/strong>, <strong>unemployment <\/strong>and<strong> healthcare<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It needs<strong> too much effort by the security forces<\/strong>\u00a0 and nurtures<strong> inefficiency and leads to lack of governance<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It causes <strong>delay in justice dispensation<\/strong> as government records are not available to the pleaders in one region for six months at a time.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>valuable and sensitive government documents<\/strong> and resources of the UT are <strong>put to tremendous risk<\/strong> in the process of their transportation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The time taken in the whole exercise of shifting <strong>impacts the process of timely policy formulations and implementations<\/strong> leading to slow growth and development of the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the Latest Move<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Only sensitive records will be taken<\/strong> from Jammu to Srinagar for summer 2021, unlike in previous years when the entire administration and records would be shifted.<\/li>\n<li>The UT government has <strong>decided to switch to e-governance<\/strong> and all the official <strong>records will be converted into digital format<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>As a result, <strong>only the Secretariat employees and some offices will make the move<\/strong> along with the sensitive records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/jammu-and-kashmir-sensitive-records-durbar-move-7265198\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Recently, the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&#038;K) has decided to shift only sensitive records from Jammu to Srinagar in the summer, breaking the century and a half old tradition of the Durbar Move. Traditional Durbar Move It is a bi-annual shifting of the Civil Secretariat and other offices of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[31,30,39,83],"class_list":["post-14746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-government-policies-interventions","tag-gs-2","tag-issues-arising-out-of-their-design-implementation","tag-issues-relating-to-development"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3489136current-affairs (2).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}