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New Delhi: The union cabinet
Monday decided to further increase allowances of MPs by Rs.10,000
per month, comprising a hike of Rs.5,000 each in their constituency
and office expense allowances. However, the three-fold salary hike
remains unaltered.
The panel met here under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to reconsider and bring amendments to the MPs’ salary hike
bill it had cleared last week.
The proposed hike was severely opposed by parliamentarians who were
demanding a 500 percent raise against the three-fold hike proposed
by the government.
Sources told IANS that the panel gave its nod to a hike in
non-taxable perks - constituency and office allowances - given to
MPs.
However, the 300 percent hike in their monthly salary - from
Rs.16,000 a month to Rs.50,000 - won’t be altered, the sources said.
The latest decision comes two days after Congress trouble shooter
and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met the protesting MPs over
the issue. Though it remains to be seen if the parliamentarians
agree to the further hike, the sources said Mukherjee has already
taken them into confidence.
The government earlier Friday cleared the salary hike proposal and
doubled other perks, but dissatisfied MPs from various parties
stalled Lok Sabha proceedings demanding more money.
The protesting MPs led by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad said it is less
than the Rs.80,001 as recommended by a parliamentary committee,
which had proposed that MPs should get at least a rupee more than
top bureaucrats.
An MP at present gets Rs.16,000 as monthly salary and a daily
allowance of Rs.1,000 for each day when parliament is in session or
taking part in house committee meetings. This has also been doubled.
Besides, a member is entitled to a constituency allowance of
Rs.20,000 a month and an office expense allowance of Rs.20,000 each
month. These perks were doubled Friday and the sources said the
government has hiked these allowances each by Rs.5,000 more.
MPs’ conveyance allowance has gone from Rs.1 lakh to Rs.4 lakh.
Spouses of MPs are entitled to free train travel from their place of
residence to Delhi. They also get up to eight free plane tickets
from their place of residence to Delhi.
The bill seeking amendments to the Salaries and Allowances of
Members of Parliament Act, 1954, after being cleared by the cabinet
will be tabled in parliament most likely Wednesday to be passed by
both houses before the hike is actually implemented.
The increase will be given with retrospective effect since the
beginning of the current Lok Sabha, the 15th, which means MPs will
get arrears from May 2009.
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