After 4-Year Hiatus, J&K Revives 150-Year-Old Darbar Move Tradition

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New Delhi: After a four-year break, the Jammu and Kashmir government has formally restored the 150-year-old tradition of the Darbar Move, the biannual shifting of the capital between Srinagar (summer) and Jammu (winter). Over the weekend, hundreds of government employees, along with convoys of buses carrying official records, traveled from Srinagar to Jammu in preparation for the move. The Civil Secretariat in Jammu is set to reopen on Monday, making the highest government offices fully functional from the winter capital.

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who personally inaugurated the reopening, said that the suspension of the

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