Jammu, April 16 -- The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday deferred the biannual Darbar Move to Srinagar saying that the civil secretariat, which is the seat of the Union Territory administration, shall function both in Srinagar and Jammu cities.

As part of the biannual Darbar Move and the civil secretariat's shift, other move offices and the Raj Bhavan were scheduled to close in Jammu on April 30 to May 01 and set to begin functioning in the summer capital from May 10.

The practice of Darbar Move - under which the administration functions in Jammu during six months of winter and in Srinagar during summer - was started by Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1872 to escape extreme weather conditions in the two regions.

"In view of sharply risi...