IAS officers to file their Immovable Property Returns: DoPT
NEW DELHI : The Department of Personnel (DoPT) on Thursday notified that from January 1, 2017 the IAS cadre officers would have to file their Immovable Property Returns (IPRs) online.
In a letter addressed to all the Chief Secretaries and central ministerial and department heads Rajiv Kumar, Establishment Officer and Additional Secretary in the Department of Personnel said that online filing of IPR for which an IPR Module has been designed and would become operational with effect from January 1.
Mr. Kumar said that the navigation tab for IPR Module has been provided in the menu on Home Page of SPARROW ( https://sparrow.eoffice.gov.
The change has been effect after it was noticed that submission of hard copies of IPR, certain problems that is IPRs getting lost in transition, IPRs though submitted but not uploaded by the State Government, IPRs without date uploaded in the system, ante-dating of IPR, etc. are still being faced.
The date of submission of 1PR has assumed further significance due to denial of Vigilance Clearance in case of late submission of IPR since the issue of instructions in April 2011 by the Department.
“After filing the return online, the officer would have to authenticate it by using the Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) already issued to him under SPARROW or through eSign as the IPR module has been eSign-enabled.
“A provision for uploading the IPR under the tab ‘Upload Form’ has also been provided to enable the officer to scan and upload the IPR in case he/she does not have a DSC/eSign or is not able to use his DSC for any reasons.
A ‘User Manual-IPR’ to facilitate filling up the forms has been provided in the help menu on the Home Page of SPARROW. In case of any difficulty, the officer could send an e-mail at support-sparrow nic.in”, Mr. Kumar wrote.
The letter said that as per Rule 16(2) of AIS(Conduct) Rules, 1968, all the members of the IAS are required to submit their Immovable Property Returns(IPRs) every year as on 1st January and latest by 31st January.
In view of the said rule position, the Members of Service- (MoS) have been submitting their IPR to their Cadre Controlling Authorities and a copy to the DoPT. Since 2011, these IPRs are being uploaded on the DoPT website by the State Governments in respect of officers posted with them.
