Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 9: In an emergency meeting of the Forum, members of the JPPF welcomed the historic decision taken by the Government to keep Civil Secretariat functional at both the places i.e. Jammu as well as Srinagar. The members of the Forum extended heartiest compliments to the Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu and to his entire team for taking a revolutionary step by altering one and half Century old system of move to Summer and Winter Capital after every six months.
“We the people of Jammu are extremely happy and overwhelmed because it will not only save the hundreds of crores of rupees unnecessary wasted in transportation along with precious time wasted in movement, moreover public is also put to wait for many urgent works.
Further JPPF, while discussing said issue a long pending demand of Jammuites is fulfilled. Members were also of the opinion that this decision will also give a very big relief to all the Jammu and Srinagar based employees who were otherwise had to move every six month to Srinagar and vice Versa. Finally the Government has taken a wise decision specially at this particular time as it is going to give big sigh of relief to Jammu based employees as during this turmoil of Corona when nobody is interested to go away from home.
“We the members once again thank to the entire team of LG, the members present in the meeting were Pavitar Singh (Retd Session Judge) president, M S Katoch, (working president) Avinash Bhatia, M L Sharma, Resham Singh, Surendr Vir, Charanjit Kumar, Gurmit Singh, Rajeev Mahajan, Pritam Sharma, Sunita Sharma.