DATA AS ON THE DAY OROP DECLARED - 05 SEP 15 : POVERTY STRIKEN ; 1 OF OUT OF 7 IAS OFFICERS CLAIM TO OWN NO LAND OR HOUSE?

Almost 1 out every 7 IAS officers who file property returns claim to have no property, be it land, building or house. 

Analysis of immovable property returns by a website, factly.in, that aims to make public data more meaningful to citizens, shows that of the 3,600 IAS officers who have been filing immoveable property returns since 2010, 559 or 14.5% declared that they have no property in their submission to the Centre for the financial year 2014. The highest number of officials who claimed to own no property were from UP (57), followed by MP (42). The AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre had 37 such officers, with Maharashtra (33) and Tamil Nadu (31) fourth and fifth.Former chief information commissioner and erstwhile bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah said, “It is possible for 14.5% of the officers not to have any property but I won't think it is credible. It is a somewhat high number for officials or their spouses not to have any property . “It is a somewhat high number for officials or their spouses not to have any property ,“ Habibullah said.

He added that officers at the beginning of their career may not have property but by mid-career, most of them did.
In analysed IPRs filed by IAS officers from 2010-2014 to find that 14.6% that is 661 of 3,865 -had defaulted at least once in filing their returns.According to the department of personnel and training (DoPT), there are 4,526 IAS officials of which 3,865 filed their returns for all years since 2010. The worst performing batch where most number of officials (83.7%) defaulted at least once in filing returns was the 2013 batch.
The worst performing cadre was Tripura with only 38.2% compliance. Among the best performing batch was 1977 with 100% compliance while the cadre was Maharashtra with 96.3% compliance.
As per rules notified under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, every public servant has to file declaration, information and annual returns of his assets and liabilities as on March 31, every year, on or besfore July 31 of that year.

(Source-https://factly.in/ )

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