56 Gujarat cadre IAS officers didn’t submit details of immovable assets

Gandhinagar: As per Department of Personnel and Training data, over 1,800 IAS officers have not submitted details of their immovable assets to the government within the stipulated time-frame this year which was January 2017. 56 of them are Gujarat cadre IAS officers. Chief Secretary of Gujarat has directed the IAS officers to comply. All officers of the Indian Administrative Service are mandated to submit Immovable Property Returns of a year by January-end of the following year, failing which their promotion and empanelment can be denied. The highest of 255 such officers are from Uttar Pradesh cadre, 153 from Rajasthan, 118 from Madhya Pradesh, 109 from West Bengal and 104 from Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. As per norms, civil services officers are also supposed to give details of their assets and liabilities to the government. Besides, the officers need to take prior permission from the Central government before accepting gifts worth more than Rs 5,000. They also need to inform government if they accept gifts of over Rs 25,000 from their relatives or friends, according to the rules. The total sanctioned strength of IAS is 6,500, including 1,450 promotion posts.There are 1,527 and 1,537 IAS officers, including some from Central civil services, who have not submitted their IPRs for 2015 and 2014 respectively.