Make both secretariats fully functional : DSS

DSS president G S Charak addressing press conference in Jammu on Friday. -Excelsior/Rakesh
DSS president G S Charak addressing press conference in Jammu on Friday. -Excelsior/Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 19: While welcoming the decision of the Dogra Sadar Sabha (DSS) to have parallel civil secretariats at Jammu and Srinagar, its president G S Charak has demanded that it should be made permanent affair with the operation of all the departments at both the places.
Taking care of social distancing amid COVID-19, DSS while interacting with the media-persons here termed the decision of the Government to have parallel secretariats at both the capitals of the J&K UT as a step in right direction. DSS thanked the Central  Government agreeing to what the DSS had been persistently demanding and struggling for the last one decade.
Though compelled by the COVID pandemic, it has been a very positive, landmark and historical decision that shall benefit both Jammu and Kashmir regions who will have Government accessible round the year; instead of five months a year and can approach them when they are needed most during winters in Valley and burning heat of summers in Jammu region.
It shall also help the staff who shall be rid off the nomads life throughout their service with disrupted children education. Besides, the transportation expenditure, disruption in work twice a year, the Government will save on dual maintenance of accommodations, transport fleets in waiting at both ends. The savings will overweigh the expenditure, even if some additional working hands are to be employed. The balance of enormous saving may be handy for improving the much needed medical infrastructure and developmental activities.
“Instead of dividing the departments, there should be an arrangement to divide each department so that the functioning of each continues at both ends, throughout the year,” said G S Charak former minister and president of the Sabha.
He demanded that all departmental facilities should be made available to both regions, while the top bureaucracy and functionaries can supervise online and visit both secretariats in turn.  The DSS also reminded the Government of their other standing request to shift the secretariat check point 50 mtrs towards the main building and remove the barrier that denies the main road to the town dividing the historic city of Jammu in two parts. DSS urged the UT Govt to make both the secretariats fully functional at both the capitals of J&K UT.
The meeting was also attended by PS Gupta, GA Khawaja, Col Virendra K. Sahi, GD Singh Charak, Chhankar Singh, SS Sambyal, Dr RS Charak and others.

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