Omar online, state govt offline

Omar online, state govt offline
Official website non-functional for past few months
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Jammu, May 12
Though Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is tech-savvy and is known for his tweets, the official website of the state government is not functioning for the last few months.

The official website of the Jammu and Kashmir Government-- jammukashmir.nic.in, which was earlier being used as an important tool to get all important information, is non-functional due to data uploading. As soon as one goes to this page, a picture showing a man working on the website appears with words “under construction”.

The delay in the functioning of the website is creating problems for students as well as people from all walks of life. “Earlier we used to take the help of the website to prepare project reports or get any authentic information about the government departments, but of late it has been non-functional for a long period, creating a lot of problems for us,” said Rohit Sharma, a student of the University of Jammu.

He appealed to the Chief Minister to look into the matter and find out the reasons behind the inordinate delay in making it functional again. Similarly, a government schoolteacher, Amrit, who also follows Omar on his twitter, told The Tribune that, “I am surprised that while the Chief Minister is always online, how come is he not aware about the closure of the government’s official website?”

He added that, “Had he known that the website was not functioning for a long time, he would have ordered an inquiry into the matter”.

Earlier The Tribune had published a number of stories about stale information being provided on this website. After the publication of these news the administration decided to update it and close it for updating. But even after almost four months it had not been made functional again.