Darbar Move employees asked to vacate Govt flats within 21 days

Jammu, June 30: Estates Department today cancelled allotment of residential accommodations of Darbar Move employees in Jammu as well as Srinagar. As per a GAD order, the employees have been given 21 days to vacate their accommodations.

“In pursuance of the previous Government orders, sanction has been accorded to the cancellation of allotment of residential accommodations of officers at Srinagar who are stationed in Jammu and of those officers whose accommodation is at Jammu but they are stationed at Srinagar,” reads the order issued by the J&K Estates Department.

   

“The officer/official shall vacate their government residential accommodation under his/her occupation within 21 days from the date of issuance of the order,” the order further read.

The order has been issued in continuation to the earlier GAD orders with reference to deferring of ‘Darbar Move’ in the wake of Covid 19 pandemic.

As per the order among the allottees whose allotments have been cancelled included MD JKPDC Raja Yaqoob Farooq, Special Secretary, Department of Law Manoj Kumar Pandit, Mission Director, National Health Mission Choudhary Mohammed Yaseen. Director Finance, Forest Ecology and Environment department RS Bali, Director Finance Home Department Tahir Hussain too have been directed to vacate their accommodations at Srinagar.

As per the directions, the officials who were allotted around 2198 flats and quarters i.e., 1737 in Jammu and 461 in Srinagar, have been directed to vacate the accommodations within 21 days.

The officials and employees stationed at Kashmir have become anxious following the order and they have sought more time to vacate the accommodations in Jammu, citing hot summers as one of the reasons.

“We are planning to meet the Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta with regard to the cancellation of the allotment orders to seek some time to vacate the government flats in Jammu. Move of officials to shift their belongings from Jammu to Srinagar will affect the working in Civil Secretariat,” an employee who works in Civil Secretariat Srinagar said.

Allottees of around 461 government flats have been directed to vacate their accommodations in Srinagar. Of these flats, 106 accommodations are at Old Tulsi Bagh, 120 in Tulsi Bagh Phase-II, 15 at Silk Factory Road, 80 Flats at Badshah Chowk, 5 at Jawahar Nagar.

Besides, the allottees of two flats at Natipora, 132 flats at Sempora (Pompore), one flat at Bemina and another at Magarmal Bagh Srinagar too figure in the list whose government accommodations have been cancelled.

Of around 1737 Government flats in Jammu, the Estates Department has ordered the allottees of 57 flats at Gandhi Nagar to vacate the government quarters within stipulated period.

These allottees included Naheed Soz Managing Director, Women’s Development Corporation, Director General (Budget), Finance Department, M Y Itoo, Director General, Audit and Inspections, J&K, Fayaz Ahmed Lone, Director General, Stationery and Office Supplies, Abdul Kabir Dar, Director Planning, Social Welfare Department, Dr Omera Shafat Mir. Besides 10 allottees of Rehari Staff/Panama Chowk quarters, 63 allottees from Poonch House (Talab Tillo), 27 from Poonch House (Panjtirthi) flats, 101 from two-room flats at Poonch House (Panjtirthi), 44 from Kachi Chowni, 71 from Roop Nagar, 156 from New BC Road, 96 from Old BC Road, 10 from flats of JDA at Muthi, 223 from Top Sherkhania, 134 from Sarwal, 3 from Roller Shed, BC Road, 3 allottees of EP Flats including Labour Commissioner, J&K, Abdul Rashid War, and Secretary Law, GAD, J&K Sheikh Fayaz at Wazarat Road have also been told to vacate their accommodations.

Similarly, 57 allottees of flats in Rehari Nallah/Rehari Blocks, 223 allottees of Ahata Amar Singh/SMG flats/New Block, 127 from Company Bagh flats, 6 from Mean Sarkar (Bari Brahmana, Samba), 63 from Janipur (TRT), 155 from Janipur (ORT), 23 from Channi Himmat flats, 27 from Nehru Market, and 2 from Dormitory have also been asked to vacate.

The government has recently shifted mode of working to e-Office enabling the officials to work from both the Jammu and Srinagar Civil Secretariats without moving the files physically unlike past practice. Only, the important files were shifted physically and other files were moved using e-Office.

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