Rs 95.29 Cr expenditure incurred on account of allowances to employees
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government has revealed that Rs 95.29 Crore expenditure was incurred on account of allowances to Darbar Move employees in the past two years.
In an affidavit submitted in the J&K High Court, the Finance department has revealed that Rs 95. 29 crore were spent on account of paying allowances to Move employees.
According to details available with news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Rs 28.49 Crore were spent for travel allowance, loading/ unloading charges, carriage charges , refreshment and temporary monthly allowance of 10112 employees for six months starting from April 2019.
In six months beginning April 2018, Rs 29. 74 crore were utilized on account of allowances for 10580 Move employees. The department has revealed that Rs 36. 99 crore expenditure was incurred on account of allowances and other items of 9695 employees for six-month period beginning October 2019.
As already reported by—KNO last evening, Rs 127 crore were spent by Estates department for providing accommodation to Darbar Move employees in the past two years.
As per the 148–year-old practice of Darbar Move, the civil secretariat and all other important offices of J&K function in Srinagar from May to October. These offices function in Jammu from November to April.
The practice of Darbar Move was started by Dogra ruler Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872 to “escape the extreme weather of Kashmir in winter and to give a fillip to economy of Jammu.”