KL Desk
Srinagar
Kashmir Life is going public about the properties of the top state officials on day-to-day basis so that the common masses can have information about the officials who govern them. We start with J&K’s top bureaucrat, Chief Secretary Madhav Lal. The information is strictly based on the statements of the officials which they have submitted to the government on their appointment.
Madhav Lal, the incumbent chief secretary (CS) to J&K. He is from the JK 1977 (IAS) batch and was appointed as CS on February 2, 2011.
Madhav was born on June 4, 1955 and he has done B.SC (honors) Physics, M.Sc Physics and MPA.
A resident of Delhi, Madhav has served the state of Jammu and Kashmir in various capacities including principal secretary to government- forest department, principal Secretary to government- planning and development department and OSD in the resident commission, J&K government.
He has also served in the government of India as deputy secretary in the ministry of finance (department of economic affairs) and as member (finance and administration) in the national highway authority of India.
The property statement submitted by him to the state government is as under:
Form 1
Statement of immovable property for the year ending December 2011
- Name of the officer and the service to which he belongs: Madhav Lal, IAS (J&K:1977)
- Present post held: Chief Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir
- Cadre of the state on which born: IAS (J&K: 1977)
- Present pay: Rs 80,000
| Name of the District, sub division Taluk, and village in which property is situated | Name and details of property, housing, land and other buildings | Present Value | If not in own name, in whose name held and his/her relationship to the member of the service | How acquired whether by purchase, lease, mortage, inheritance, gift or otherwise with date of acquisition and name with details of persons from whom acquired | Annual income from property | Remarks |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| New Delhi | Apartment 50B Paschimi Marg, Vasant Vihar, (1/4thof family share) | Rs80 Lakhs approx. | jointly owned with legal successors of late father (Rajendra Lal), mother (usha Lal), and Brother (Raghav Lal) | Land lease between DDA, government servants coop House Bldg society Ltd. Vasant Vihar and owners dated 1.7.1991 | nil | Father was original member of the Vasant Vihar govt officers coop housing society. |
| Greater Noida, Distt Gautam Budh Nagar, U.P | house Subplot 38, Greenwoods govt Officers welfare society (phase II), pocket P-2, sector Omega I, greater Noida | Rs 50 lakhs approx | self owned | Membership of greenwoods govt officers’ welfare society acquired in 2000. Agreement with the society dt. 17.01. 2003 | Rs 3 Lakh | Plot size 300 sqm. |
| Indirapuram, Distt. Ghaziabad, UP | flat no. Kadam 702, ‘Shipra Krishna’, Ahinsa Khand, Indrapuram, UP, | present value Rs 36 lakhs (instalments payments for apptt. under construction) | self and wife (surchi Lal), | Membership of Srishti welfare society acquired in July 2006. allotment letter dated 6.10.2006) | Nil |
