Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday directed his ministerial colleagues and bureaucrats to declare their and their family members' movable and immovable assets within three months.
According to official sources here, Adityanath gave this direction while speaking at a meeting of the state cabinet here.
He asked the ministers, IAS, IPS and state civil and police service officials to declare their assets and make them available on the internet so that anyone could see them. ''It is important for a healthy democracy,'' the chief minister said.
He also said that the ministers and the bureaucrats should also update the details of their and their family members' assets annually so that any increase or decrease in their assets might also be known to the common people.
Adityanath also asked the ministers to ensure that there was no interference from their family members in the working of their respective departments. ''We must set an example for others....keep your family members away from the official works....any interference from the family members will be viewed seriously,'' he added.
The chief minister also directed the ministers to be in the field for at least five days a week. ''They should be in the state capital on Monday and Tuesday... on other days they should be in the field,'' he said.
Adityanath has set up 18 groups of ministers and each group has been entrusted with the task of taking care of at least one division.
The opposition parties, however, termed it a ''publicity stunt'' of the BJP aimed at garnering the support of the people ahead of the next Lok Sabha polls in 2024.
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