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Salary of Parliamentarians may be doubled

by IBNS 23 Dec 2015, 07:07 pm

New Delhi, Dec 24 (IBNS) The parliamentary affairs ministry has proposed that the salary of lawmakers be doubled.

According to media reports, the  salary hike could happen in the Budget session of Parliament. The ministry has proposed that the monthly salary of parliamentarians be doubled from Rs.50,000 to Rs. 1,00,000 and office and constituency allowances from Rs. 45,000 to Rs. 90,000.

If these proposals are accepted by the Finance Ministry, lawmakers of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will earn Rs. 2.8 lakh a month.

The finance ministry is also said to be weighing another proposal that links the salary of lawmakers to the Pay Commission, a panel that determines the salaries of government employees.

The proposal is to fix the salary of members of Parliament at Rs. 1,000 more than a secretary in the central government and the salary of ministers at Rs. 10,000 more than the Cabinet Secretary.

That plan suggests that the Prime Minister's salary be one and a half times that of the Cabinet Secretary's.

The last revision in salary of parliamentarians was in 2009.