Business Standard: Mumbai: Saturday,
July 30, 2016.
Only 12
members of the Maharashtra Cabinet have declared their assets and liabilities
details as per Central government's code of conduct for ministers, an RTI query
has revealed.
The Cabinet
strength increased to 39 from 28 recently after Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis inducted some new faces.
City-based
RTI activist Anil Galgali last month had sought information from the General
Administration Department (GAD) on 'assets and liabilities' declared by the
ministers - Cabinet and MoS.
Under
Secretary of GAD, K S Parab, in his reply informed that 11 ministers had divulged
their property and assets details to the Chief Minister, while Fadnavis made
his declaration to the state Chief Secretary.
The reply
also stated that according to code of conduct drafted by the Centre, it is
compulsory for ministers to declare their property and responsibilities
statement.
Supreme
Court, however, stipulates that it is not mandatory.
The 12
ministers including Devendra Fadnavis are Chandrakant Patil (Revenue), Sudhir
Mungantiwar (Finance), Vinod Tawde (School Education), Prakash Mehta (Housing),
Subhash Desai (Industries), Ram Shinde (Home, Public Health), Girish Bapat
(Food and Civil Supplies), Girish Mahajan (Irrigation), Diwakar Raote
(Transport), Babanrao Lonikar (Water supply) and Pravin Pote Patil (Minister of
State- Environment).
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