Order regarding Property Statements

PUBLIC (SERVICES—U) DEPARTMENT GO. (Ms.) No. 40/63/PD.t Dated, Trivandrum, 25th January, 1963. Abstract—Government Servants' Conduct Rules, 1960—Statement of landed properties shares, in companies held by Government servants, their wives, relatives or friends (benami)—Submission ofInstitutions—Issued. [SliuI]:l Under rule 37 of the Government Servants' Conduct Rules, every Government Servant except those in the last grade shall submit to the Government not later than the 15th January each year a statement in the form given in Appendix A to the rules, showing all the immovable properties of which he stood possessed or in which he had an interest at the close of the preceding calendar year. It has come to notice that many Government Servants do not furnish the annual property statements to the prescribed authorities in spite of definite instructions. Even those who furnish the statements, do not give full particulars in the prescribed form. Instances have been pointed out where the Government Servants do not even give their signature and designation. Serious notice will be taken of breach of the rules for non submission of returns, as well as fur not giving full particulars in the forms prescribed. The remarks column is seen left blank usually. All Government Servants are inforthed that hereafter in the remarks column details as to whether Government sanction has been obtained for a transaction during the year should be furnished and, if so, the order sanctioning the transaction should be quoted to enable the proper scrutiny of the statement. Rule 28 of the rules provides that the restriction on acquisition and possession of immovable property applies also to the acquisition and possession in the name of any other person. The term 'friend' used in the statement in Appendix A to the rules is to indicate such person. It has been pointed out that the use of the term 'friend' in the form gives rise to confusion. The term 'friend' in the form will therefore be substituted by the word "others (benami)". t Published in Kerala Gezette No. 9 dated 26th February 1963. Ei Under Rule 37 of the Government Servants' Conduct Rules every Government Servant other than those in the * (Last Grade) shall furnish before 15th January each year a statement in Form-A appended to the rules, showing all the immovable pioperties of which the Government Servant stood possessed or in which he had an interest at the close of the preceding calendar year. The Government consider that ancestral joint family properties not exclusively in the name of the Government Servant, or his wife or others (benami) need not be included in the Statement, as very often the Government Servant himself may not know the details of such properties. The word 'benami' appearing in the 'Form-A' appended to the Government Servants' Conduct• Rules, in the Service Manual Volume I is a clerical error for 'benami' and will be corrected accordingly. Necessary amendments to the Government Servants' Conduct Rules in the light of Paras 3, 4, and 5 above will issue separately. S. Government further emphasis that non submission of the return by the due date viz., January 15th each year will constitute a breach of the Govermrient Servants' Conduct Rules making the Government Servant concerned liable for disciplinary action. By order of the Governor, P. J. FNcIs, - Joint Secretary.