By IANS,
Chandigarh : Employees of the Punjab government will now have to submit details of any purchase of property, where the amount exceeds their monthly salary, an official said.
The Punjab government has issued a notification stating that its employees must submit the details of each transaction of moveable and immovable property in any shape, if it is more than their monthly salary, a government spokesman said.
The details will have to be submitted before the prescribed authority, he added.
He said that the state government has amended Section 18 of Government Employees Conduct Rules-1966 and now every government employee shall report to the prescribed authority each transaction of moveable or immovable property made by way of lease, mortgage, purchase, sale, gift or otherwise either in his own name of any member of his family.
This will be mandatory if the actual cost of such transaction exceeds one month’s gross salary of such employee, the spokesman added.