After the recommendations
of the 7th Pay Commission lead to an increase in the salaries of government
employees, now the salaries of Members of Parliament are also set to see a huge
raise- 100%!
A new recommendation has
suggested the jump of basic salaries of our Parliamentarians from Rs. 50,000 to
a Lakh per month, besides other benefits. The recommendations were first
suggested by the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament
under Yogi Adityanath, and was then sanctioned by a group of ministers and
submitted to the Cabinet.
Now, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will decide whether to sanction the changes or not. If he does,
then the Parliament will be likely to approve them too, during the ongoing
monsoon session, which began today and will end in the first week of August.
The new salaries are to
be effective from April, this year, suggested the recommendation. But this is
not all. Other allowances and benefits are also set to rise exponentially.
The constituency
allowance, which takes care of the MP’s travel and additional expenses in
covering his/her particular constituency, is expected to shoot up to Rs.
90,000!
The raise also stands true for salaries of office staff of MPs. The annual
furniture allowance for the MPs’ official homes will be increased to Rs
1,50,000, while free broadband worth Rs. 1,700 per month, will be provided to
the MPs at their official homes in their constituencies. Pensions of former MPs
have also been revised and increased from Rs 20,000 to Rs 35,000. The basic
compensation for an Indian Parliament lawmaker will climb from Rs. 1,90,000 per
month to 2,80,000 (salary along with constituency and office staff allowances).
This is the first
revision in the salaries of Parliamentarians comes after six years. But not
everyone is in favor of the increase. Speaking to NDTV, Prasun Banerjee of
Trinamool Congress said, ”I am against this increase. We are working here for
the service of the people, and what we get is sufficient.”
Source : India News