12 Apr, 2016 08:21 PM

Assets and liabilities declaration - Deadline extended to July 31, 2016

The deadline for central government employees to file details of their assets and liabilities, along with that of their spouses and dependent children, as part of mandatory obligations under Lokpal Act was extended for the fifth time today till July this year.

The relevant rules under the Lokpal law have been amended to extend the date of filing returns from April 15 to July 31, 2016, a senior official in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said.

This is the fifth extension in the deadline after the Act came into force. With the latest extension, employees will have to file three declarations--one each for 2014, 2015 and 2016. There are about 50 lakh Central government employees.

MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
(Department of Personnel and Training)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 11th April, 2016

G.S.R. 414(E).––In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (k) and clause (m) of sub-section (2) of section 59 read with section 44 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (1 of 2014), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014, namely:––

1. (1) These rules may be called the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Amendment Rules, 2016.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014, in rule 3, in sub-rule (2),—

(a) in the first proviso, for the words and figures “on or before the 15th day of April, 2016”, the words and figures “on or before the 31st day of July, 2016” shall be substituted;

(b) in the second proviso, for the words and figures “on or before the 15th day of April, 2016”, the words and figures “on or before the 31st day of July, 2016” shall be substituted.

[F. No. 407/12/2014-AVD-IV (B)]

JISHNU BARUA,
Jt. Secy