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Prime Minister's key ministers and their assets

  •   Sat, Sep 03 2011 08:14:48 PM

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led his council of ministers in declaring their assets Saturday.

Here is a list of the assets of some of the prominent ministers :

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee:

Total assets - Rs.3.06 crore.

Two houses in Delhi - one in Munrika and the other in Greater Kailash-II (in his wife Suvra Mukherjee's name) (costing around Rs.1.15 crore), owns eight properties in West Bengal, including three flats in Kolkata (costing over Rs.62 lakh) and ancestral house (around Rs.2 lakh).

Has a Ford Ikon car.

Has over Rs.1 lakh cash in hand, around Rs.64 lakh fixed deposits and over Rs.31 lakh jewellery and over Rs.26 lakh in saving accounts.

Defence Minister A.K. Antony:

Total assets - Rs. 35.1 lakh ($77,000).

Total fixed deposits of over Rs.20,000, over Rs.3.5 lakh in savings, owns two properties of over Rs.30 lakh.

Owns a second-hand WagonR car.

Home Minister P.Chidambaram:

Total assets - Rs.24.7 crore.

Owns two coffee estates in Kodagu (in Karnataka) worth Rs.1.4 crore, three houses in Tamil Nadu costing around Rs.1.1 crore and a piece of agricultural land over Rs.11 lakh.

Has jewellery over Rs.15 lakh, total cash in hand and in saving accounts over Rs.62 lakh, and around Rs.6.1 crore in fixed deposits.

Has a cycle, four cars, including Skoda, Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen and a Kinetic Honda. Among his other assets are treadmill and two computers worth over Rs.8 lakh.

He and his wife Nalini own jewellery over Rs.9 lakh.

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna:

Total assets - Rs.3.9 crore.

Owns a house in Bangalore around Rs.2 lakh, has six agricultural lands in Karnataka, costing around Rs.29 lakh.

Owns two cars, including a Lancer.

He and his wife Prema Krishna own jewellery worth Rs.8 lakh.

Invested Rs.18 lakh in share market; around Rs.3 crore in savings and has over Rs.1.5 lakh cash in hand.

Human Resource Development and Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal:

Total assets - Rs.37.45 crore.

Two agricultural land - one in Delhi and one in Bangalore - around Rs.1.38 crore, owns three plots in Faridabad, Gurgaon and Chandigarh worth over Rs.3.92 crores, owns six flats, including in Maharani Bagh, worth over Rs.20 crore. He mentions that he has made an advance payment for a property for which he has shelled out Rs.4.2 crore.

Owns one-third share in a shopping mall in Ludhiana in Punjab worth Rs.29 lakh.

He has also invested Rs.1.2 crore in share market.

Has three cars, including Toyota Corolla, Hyundai Sonata, Reva electric car and a Suzuki jeep. He also has an Enfield Bullet motorcycle.

He and his wife Promila have jewellery worth Rs.64 lakh.

Law Minister and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid:

Total assets - Rs.6.4 crore.

He and his wife Louise have four agricultural lands worth Rs.2.2 crore, has three flats, one in Jamia Nagar (worth Rs.50 lakh) and two in Goa (over Rs.8 lakh).

He, his wife and their two sons Zafar and Samar own seven cars, including an old imported one, Mahindra Jeep, Innova, Maruti Gypsy, Scorpio, Hyundai Verna and Maruti Swift.

Invested around Rs.1 crore in share market.

His wife has jewellery worth Rs.4 lakh.

He has bank deposits of over Rs.1.5 crore.


 
  

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  • Vidyadhar C.Badve, Pune

    Sun, Sep 04 2011

    All the ministers must also that what ancestral property (movable, immovable and cash etc) they inherited before coming in politics or before becoming minister. This will give information as to how much assets the ministers have built up during the tenure of ministry. Do they have any known source of income other than the salary/perks they get as a minister.

    At present the ministers have  their property owned by them selves and their wives. They must also properties owned by their nearest relatives e.g.their brothers, sisters , children etc. The ministers must ask their personal secretories to their assets. Most of the ministers are running several organizations or trusts. Assets of those organizations and trusts must also be d by the ministers separately.

    Donations received from donors/funding agencies for these trusts/organizations also must be d to public. This will bring transperency in whole matter. If the minister has taken loan from any financial institution that also must be d along with the purpose for which it was taken and how much of it is payed back and what is the balance amount payable. This exercise must be done every year by all the ministers in Central as well as in State govts.This will help in keeping clean image of the minister in minds of the citizens of India. I hope that all the ministers including PM and CMs will agree to this.

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