Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, July 30: In response to a question in the Rajya Sabha today, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh stated that officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and other All India Services including Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) as well as officers of Central Civil Services, such as Indian Foreign Service, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Indian Revenue Service, etc. are required to file a return, consisting of details of their assets and liabilities, under their respective conduct rules and also under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.
Dr Jitendra Singh further elaborated that under the All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968, All India Services officers, on their first appointment to the Service, submit a return of their assets and liabilities giving full particulars regarding immovable property owned, inherited or acquired by them, either in their own name or in the name of any member of his/her family or in the name of any other person. They are also required to file a return regarding shares, debentures and other movable property including cash and jewellery, similarly owned, acquired or held by them, he explained. In addition, he said, such officers are also required to intimate the Government in respect of each transaction which exceeds a certain value as prescribed from time to time within a month of such transaction,he added.
Further, Dr Jitendra Singh stated that the Conduct Rules also prescribed that an officer should submit an annual return giving full particulars regarding immovable property inherited or acquired by him/her during the preceding year.
Under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 also, these officers are required to file returns under Section 44 of the Act, stated Dr Jitendra Singh and explained that under this Act, the officer is also required to disclose the assets of his spouse and dependent children. Under this Act, every public servant is required to file with the Competent Authority an annual return of assets and liabilities as on March 31 of that year.
Dr Jitendra Singh also informed the House that the Government had introduced the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act and Other Related Law (Amendment) Bill, 2014 in the Lok Sabha on December 18, 2014 but it was referred to the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice. The Report of the Committee is still awaited, he added.
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