The government has made it mandatory for ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers and others in public service of similar status to submit their income and wealth statements to the prime minister every year.
The cabinet division in a gazette notification on Sunday said that such people will have to submit their income and wealth statements every year to the prime minister in a month after the filing of their income tax returns to the National Board of Revenue.
The prime minister on her/his own decision will make public the asset statements to be given in a prescribed form, according to the gazette signed by the cabinet secretary, M Abdul Aziz.
Earlier on July 4, 2011, the cabinet at its weekly meeting approved a proposal of the cabinet division for the submission of the ministers' wealth statements in keeping with the ruling Awami League's election pledge.
The decision came two years and a half after the AL-led alliance government had assumed office in January 2009.
The Awami League's election manifesto, A charter for change, said that wealth statements and sources of income of the prime minister, cabinet members, parliament members, and their families would be made public every year.
Source : New Age
