A Lighter Durbar Will Come To Srinagar, This Summer The Indian Express reported. Durbar Arrives: Maharaja Partap Singh being taken to his palace in Srinagar in a huge boat. Photo Ottoo Hanigmann The secretariat in Jammu will close by April 30, and the government will open its Srinagar secretariat on May 10. This shuttling of the governor’s office has been in vogue for the last 148 years, soon after the Treaty of Amritsar. Jammu and Kashmir’s Commissioner-Secretary, General Administration Department, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, has issued an order stating that “it has been decided to completely switch over to e–office by April 15’’ to “improve efficiency and effectiveness of the government and to obviate the requirement of physical movement of files/records from Jammu to Srinagar and vice versa’’.