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When the existing systems appear to be ineffective, one has to rub the slate and start from scratch

COLONEL AJAY K RAINA, SM

The biannual Durbar Move, stopped and erased from the public discourse, is back, defying administrative logic and judicial intervention on the issue. Maybe it is time to look back and assess some related thought processes that have been in existence for close to eight decades

Governance and administration models put into practice in the erstwhile state of J&K since 1947 have not only been unusual or debatable but have also been found wanting in many respects. Durbar move, as it pertains to J&K, is unique and is very dissimilar to some systems that exist in a few other states. Further, no other single federal unit (read state) has twin directorates fo

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