A terse circular issued by the Delhi Government has sent all its officers and babus scurrying for cover. The circular was issued recently to all the officers and they have been asked to furnish details of savings, bank accounts, properties owned by them and their family members latest by October 15.
After issuing directions to all employees, including C and D grade, the Delhi Government has asked all the officials/officers to intimate their saving made or to be made in the current financial year in addition to their saving as per pay bill registered. Officers are wary that if they post their account details and that of their family members, their privacy will be violated and the accounts could be hacked too.
“All the officers/officials are requested to kindly intimate their savings made/to be made during financial year 2014-15 in addition to their savings as per PBR (pay bill register). This information may please be sent by October 15,” the circular said.
According to sources, officials will have to submit details of saving in bank account, insurance premium, PPF, tuition fees for two children, GPF, details of medical insurance, housing loan, saving certificates and income from other sources.
Previously officials were supposed to declare all details of immovable property. Earlier, in a circular to all Principal Secretaries/ Secretaries/ Special Secretaries/ local and Autonomous Bodies, Delhi Government’s Services Department has directed to furnishing of information and annual returns of assets and liabilities and the limits of exemption of assets in filing returns. In the new performa, the employees will have to disclose cash in hand, deposit in bank accounts, deposit in fixed deposit and saving in financial institutions, non banking financial companies and cooperative societies, investment in bonds, debentures/shares, details of NSS, postal, saving in insurance policies, saving in jewellery, bullion and valuable things, details of vehicles and other personal loans.
As per the rules, notified under lokpal and lokayuktas Act, every public servant shall file declaration, information and annual returns of his assets and liabilities as on March 31 every year, on or before July 31 of that year. These declarations are in addition to such returns being filed by the government employees under various services rules. According to the lokpal Act, a public servant shall furnish to the competent authority information relating to the assets of which he, his spouse and his dependent children, jointly or severally, own. The employees also need to declare motor vehicles, aircraft, yachts or ships, gold and silver jewellery and bullion possessed by them, their spouses and dependent children, according to the form.
As per lokpal rules, all public servants who have filed declarations, information and annual returns of property, shall file the revised details of their movable and immovable assets as on August 1, 2014, to the competent authority the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said in a directive.
The DoPT has developed an online system named PRISM for all public servants to file their movable and immovable property returns under the lokpal Act.