CIC members reveal asset details online - The Times of India
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NEW DELHI: In a complete turnaround of its earlier stand, members of Central Information Commission (CIC) have made the details of their assets public on Wednesday.
The CIC unanimously decided to not just upload details of their assets on the CIC website, but also update the information annually. The move gains significance as the CIC has been dragging its feet on the issue over several years. Chief information commissioner Satyananda Mishra said, "We have taken a decision in March to voluntarily declare our assets on the website. We thought when there is nothing to hide, why not to place them in public domain. We hope state commissions will follow."
Information commissioner M L Sharma said he owned a Maruti 800, which he bought for Rs 2 lakh in 1993. Sharma has also declared other assets which include agricultural land and house in Jaipur that he had built in 1989-90 with a loan from the HDFC.
Information commissioner Annapurna Dixit declared two houses she owns, in Delhi and Nainital, which have a combined value of about Rs 50 lakh. While her colleague Sushma Singh has declared one house in Ranchi — purchased in 2004 — another was bought in 2008 in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad.
Mishra has given exhaustive details of property owned by him, which include an ancestral property inherited by him in his native place in Orissa, a house in Bhubaneswar and one in Bhopal which is co-owned by his wife. IC Deepak Sandhu gave details of her five properties, which include agriculture land worth Rs 1,000, two plots in Kilokari in Delhi — worth Rs 40,000 — houses in Barog (Himachal Pradesh) and Chandigarh that are valued at Rs 50 lakh and Rs 5 crore, respectively.
IC Shailesh Gandhi declared property details of his family. The former entrepreneur showed a house worth Rs 80,000, a car worth Rs five lakh, jewellery (self estimate value) of around Rs 31 lakh, bank deposits and instruments of about Rs 71 lakh and around Rs 11 lakh in cash.
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