This circular from the Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT) mandates the submission of Immovable Property Returns (IPRs) by IAS officers for the year 2010. It reiterates the deadline for submission and outlines consequences for non-compliance, including denial of Vigilance Clearance and consideration for promotion. Crucially, the circular announces the intention to place the annual property returns of All India Service and Group ‘A’ Central Service Officers in the public domain. It directs State Governments and Central Ministries to forward the IPRs to DOPT by a specified date and instructs that defaulting officers’ names will be published on the DOPT website. The circular is addressed to Chief Secretaries of State Governments and copied to various high-ranking offices including the President Secretariat, Prime Minister’s Office, and the Cabinet Secretariat.
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F.No.11/7/2011-EO(PR)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, PG and Pension
Department of Personnel and Training
(Office of the Establishment Officer)
New Delhi, dated $4^{\text {th }}$ April, 2011.
CIRCULAR
Subject:- Submission of immovable Property Returns by IAS officers for the year 2010 (as on 1.1.2011) – Placing on the public domain regarding.
Sir,
As per Rule 16(2) of AIS (Conduct) Rules, 1968, all the members of the Service are required to submit their immovable Property Returns (IPRs) latest by $31^{\text {st }}$ January every year. Vide this Department’s circular of even number, dated $22^{\text {nd }}$ December, 2010, all State Governments and Central Ministries/Department were requested to forward Immovable Property Returns of all IAS officers for the year 2010, to the Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT) latest by, $15^{\text {th }}$ February, 2011. Subsequently D.O. letter were issued to all Chief Secretaries by Secretary, DOPT to forward the IPRs of all IAS officers borne on their cadre latest by $26^{\text {th }}$ March, 2011.
2. It has been decided that officers who do not submit the property return in time would be denied Vigilance Clearance and will not be considered for promotion and empaneiment for senior level posts in Government of India. Government of India have also decided that the annual property return as on January 1, 2011 of members of All India Service and other Group ‘A’ Central Service Officers will be placed in the public domain.
3. Against this backdrop; it is once again requested that IPRs all IAS officers working in the State Governments and Central Ministries/Dept. be forwarded to reach us positively by 5 P.M. on 20.4.2011.4. The decisions of Government of India contained in Para 2 of this circular may be brought to the notice of the officers concerned and they be requested to adhere to the time line indicated in Para 3 above. The names of defaulting officers will be put up on the website of DOPT and action indicated in terms of the decision enumerated in Para 2 of this letter.
Yours faithfully,
(Dr. I.V. Subba Rao)
To
- All Chief Secretaries of the State Governments.
Copy to:
- The President Secretariat, New Delhi
- The Prime Minister’s Office, New Delhi
- The Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi
- The Lok Sahba / Rajya Sabha Secretariat
- The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, New Delhi
- The UPSC, New Delhi
- The Election of Commission of India
- All the Ministries/Departments of Government of India.
Copy also to:
- All attached offices under the Ministry of Personnel, PG and Pension.
- All Officers in the Department of Personnel and Training
- NIC (DOPT) for placing the circular on the website of DOP&T