Jammu/ May,5 : Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday now asked the Centre and other key decision makers to look into the necessity of the 148-year-old biannual Darbar move vis-à-vis the financial burden going into crores.
The High Court asked stakeholders to think about the financial implications of over Rs 200 crores which is incurred by the “hopelessly fiscally deprived Union Territory”. The bench, headed by Chief Justice Geeta Mittal, in its 93-page judgement also listed out suggestions made by senior advocate Monika Kohli, who highlighted the need for digitisation of officials’ records. The division bench heard a self-adopted Public Interest Litigation and gave a perspective of the Darbar move, as per which the capital of J&K is shifted every six months from Jammu (winter capital) to Srinagar (summer capital).