Civil Servants, Assets and Deadline: What all they have to declare under Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act

A civil servant to declare amount of precious stones one has

AS CIVIL servants need to furnish their movable and immovable assets by the end of the next month under section 44 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013, the DoPT on Tuesday issued an office memorandum giving details of the formats and deadlines. Though the civil servants had earlier too furnished immovable properties, this will be a bigger exercise, as they have to give minute details of what all they have including precious stones, antiques and paintings. Here are the disclosures a civil servant has to make by April 30:

Centre relaxes deadline for civil servants to furnish list of assets till December 31

IN A major relief to civil servants who have been trying to figure out how much assets they have including details such as the amount of gold jewellery etc. in their possession, the Centre has now extended the deadline from September 15 to December 31, 2014. There were reports that many civil servants were finding it tough to meet the deadline as…

No hard cash, Bihar bureaucrats own cows, rifles, TVS Scooty!

IF YOU thought you would spot billionaires by scanning asset declaration papers of Bihar bureaucrats you are wrong. As declaration of assets including movable ones are being uploaded in state government websites, you would instead notice how bureaucrats in Bihar have a wide range of asset class from cash and jewellery to cows and rifles.

Most of the assets are traditional in nature --- flats, GPF, NSS, postal savings, LIC policies, vehicles etc. with a little exposure to equity market.

Significantly, state water resources secretary and 1979 batch IAS Afzal Amanullah owns a rifle, a revolver and a double barrel gun. Amanullah was the principal secretary in the department of home between 2006 and 2009. Also, Magadh division commissioner and 1989 batch Bihar cadre IAS Vivek Singh also owns a revolver. Thanks to his writing skills, he earns Rs 1 lakh per year as royalty from his earlier publications.

Another interesting entry in asset class is possession of cows and calves by bureaucrats. Muzaffarpur DM and 1997 batch IAS Santosh Kumar Mall cannot match Lalu Prasad’s possession of domestic animals, but his wife seems to have a passion for pets as she possesses two cows and two calves! Banka DM and 2006 batch IAS Adesh Titarmare too owns two cows and a TVS Scooty!