New Delhi (01.01.2022): The Government has prescribed a provision in pay rules for Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS) to provide a timeline in rules for filing current and pending Immovable Property Returns (IPR) in order to get empanelment or appointment to the next level.
Filing IPR is one of the necessary conditions for empanelment, however, it was not in ‘formal rules’ creating a lot of miscommunication and litigations. Sources say that such a move will help the Centre to reshuffle bureaucracy, especially in poll-bound states.
According to a notification by DoPT, a note has been added to Indian Administrative Service (Pay) Rules, 2016, Indian Police Service (Pay) Rules, 2016 and Indian Forest Service (Pay) Rules, 2016 and accordingly new rules have been notified. The new note says IAS, IPS or IFS will file IPR for the previous year within the time frame specified for the purpose, i.e., January 31, for being considered for appointment in the next level in the pay matrix.
Now, the second part is very important which prescribes a member of service, who has not filed the IPR for any of the year prior to coming into force of the amendment rule of 2021, “shall file the same within such period, as may be laid down by the Central Government in this behalf, for being considered for appointment in the next level of pay in the pay matrix.” These changes are going to be implemented from December 30.
