SHILLONG, JUNE 7: The state government approved the Meghalaya Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2016. “We have approved the Meghalaya Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2016,” Chief Minister Mukul Sangma told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
According to him, once the rules are notified by the cabinet, every government servant is duty bound to comply in as far as declaration of assets besides investment made with any entity.
“The rules will cover everybody starting from the chief minister level,” Sangma said adding “This will also include the members of autonomous district councils (ADCs).”
He said that the government has come up with the rules in compliance with the provisions of the Meghalaya Lokayukta Act, 2014 passed by the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly and received assent of the Governor on March 26, 2014.
As per section 45 of the Act, Sangma said, “A public servant shall, within a period of 30 days from the date on which he makes and subscribes an oath or affirmation to enter upon his office, furnish to the competent authority the information relating to – the assets of which he, his spouse and his dependent children, and liabilities.”
The act also states that every public servant shall file with the competent authority, on or before July 31st of every year, an annual return of such assets and liabilities, as on March 31 of that year, he said.– By Our Reporter
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