Gurugram, New Chandigarh and Panchkula remain the preferred property hunting ground for Haryana-cadre IAS officers with several owning plots or flats there, suggest the annual immovable asset details filed by 186 bureaucrats for 2025.In their filings with the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), several officers have, however, not disclosed the present value of the immovable assets or have under-reported their current value.Among the most senior of them, Vivek Joshi, a 1989-batch officer who took voluntary retirement and joined as Election Commissioner in February 2025, owns a 1,623.96 sq ft flat in Noida, which he bought in 2019, and is now worth Rs 55 lakh. He earns Rs 1 lakh annually from it.ACS Home Sudhir Rajpal, a 1990-batch officer, owns a 420 sq m house in Gurugram, which he purchased in the 1980s, before he became an IAS officer. Its present value is Rs 7.5 crore, and its annual income is Rs 18 lakh. He also has a two-bedroom flat in Delhi, worth Rs 1.5 crore, and earns Rs 3 lakh per annum from it. Besides, he has a three-bedroom flat in Kolkata, with a present value of Rs 50 lakh, and earns Rs 3 lakh per annum from it.His returns suggest that he earns Rs 6 lakh per annum from a three-bedroom flat on Golf Course Extension Road in Gurugram worth Rs 2 crore. In Hisar, Rajpal owns a 92.25 sq m plot with a present value of Rs 15.87 lakh. He has a flat in the Highlands Cooperative Group Housing Society, Panchkula, with a deposit of Rs 1.15 crore towards land cost paid to Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP). As many as 43 IAS, IPS, and IFS officers of the Haryana cadre are members of the society.In all, Rajpal has owns immovable properties with a present value of Rs 12.81 crore and earns Rs 30 lakh per annum from these.Financial Commissioner, Revenue & Disaster Management Department Sumita Misra, also a 1990-batch officer, has a 411 sq yd plot in the Punjab IAS/PCS Officer Cooperative Group Housing Society, Mohali, worth Rs 2.5 crore. She has three parcels of land in Lucknow, measuring 7,200 sq ft, 300 sq m, and 4,100 sq ft, which she acquired from her mother in February 2020.Besides, Misra has a 250 sq yd plot in New Chandigarh, valued at Rs 1.25 crore, and a builder floor in Haus Khas, Delhi, worth Rs 3.5 crore, which she bought in 2024 from savings, sale of mutual funds and shares, overdraft from her salary account, besides an interest-free loan from her family, as per her property filing. She earns Rs 29.60 lakh per annum from these properties.ACS Food and Civil Supplies Raja Sekhar Vundru owns a 260 sq m plot in Himayatnagar, Hyderabad, now worth Rs 25 lakh (purchased by his parents), and a 200 sq m plot in Noida, which he acquired in 2003, worth Rs 1 crore.Among the 1991-batch officers, ACS, Town and Country Planning AK Singh owns 28 bighas in Baghpat worth Rs 90-95 lakh in joint ownership with brother and mother. He has a membership in a CGHS HEWO-II property in Faridabad worth Rs 64.42 lakh; and owns a 411.28 sq yard plot and a proportionate commercial space in New Chandigarh worth Rs 1.03 crore.Another 1991-batch IAS, ACS Higher Education Vineet Garg, owns a flat in Gurugram; a house in Sector 7, Panchkula; a flat in Delhi (inherited from mother); an 8-acre agricultural land in joint ownership with family in Sonepat; and a house in Sector 6, Panchkula (Hindu Undivided Family property). He has also made a contribution of Rs 3.2 crore towards Highlands Society and earns Rs 24.50 lakh per annum from the six properties he owns.Principal Secretary to CM Arun Kumar Gupta, a 1992-batch IAS officer, has a 250 sq yard plot in Hisar (in his father’s name) worth Rs 3 crore; a plot in IAS-PCS Co-operative Society, Mullanpur, worth Rs 7 crore; a flat in Gurugram worth Rs 3.5 crore; and another in Highland Society in Panchkula worth Rs 2.75 crore. He earns Rs 56,000 per month from the Gurugram flat.Deepti Umashankar, a 1993-batch officer, owns 17 acres of agricultural land in Karnal, with a present value of Rs 32 lakh per acre. The property was acquired in 1989, before she joined the civil services. She has a flat in Gurugram, co-owned with her husband, IAS V Umashankar, valued at Rs 1.04 crore.Dr D Suresh, a 1995-batch IAS officer, owns seven properties, including a 17 kanal and 5 marla agricultural land in Gurugram; and an 893.37 sq m plot on Golf Course Extension Road, Gurugram, worth Rs 3.52 crore. He also has a plot in Greater Noida, acquired in 2008 for Rs 49.5 lakh; a flat in Faridabad; a house in Telangana (gifted by his grandfather); 6 bighas worth Rs 26.60 lakh at Bhoj Mator village; and a piece of land measuring 16 kanal in Gurugram worth Rs 1.46 crore.Dr Rakesh Gupta of the 1997 batch has a 1,084 sq ft shop in Gurugram worth Rs 70 lakh; a four-bedroom apartment in Gurugram worth Rs 1.25 crore; a 500 sq yd plot in Punjab IAS/PCS Co-op Society, Mohali; a flat on the Sohna Road in Gurugram worth Rs 60 lakh; and a flat in Highlands Society, Panchkula, for which he had deposited Rs 3.19 crore.Similarly, Mohd Shayin, a 2002-batch officer, owns a flat in Highlands Society for which he paid Rs 2.27 crore towards the cost of land; a 500 sq yard plot in IAS/PCS GH in Mullanpur worth Rs 70 lakh; and the second floor of a Sector 11 house in Chandigarh worth Rs 1.10 crore. He earns Rs 27 lakh annually from the Chandigarh property.Amit Kumar Aggarwal, a 2003-batch officer, owns a 120 sq yd plot in Jaipur; a 500 sq yd plot in IAS/PCS Co-operative Society, Mohali; holds 50 per cent share in a two kanal plot in Sector 2, Mansa Devi Complex (MDC), Panchkula; and 50 per cent share in a one kanal plot in Sector 6, MDC, Panchkula.


