Salaries of Telangana MLAs, ministers
The Karnataka Government has shown the way for KCR who has been contemplating a steep hike in the salaries for legislators. Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, in fact, wanted to pass a bill effecting massive hike in the budget session following steep hike in the salaries of sarpanches.
Hefty pay hike for MLAs likely
LEGISLATORS’ SALARIES Current MLAs Rs 95,000 Ministers Rs 1.5 lakh Proposed MLAs Rs 2.3 lakh Ministers Rs 3 lakh
Hyderabad: The Karnataka Government has shown the way for KCR who has been contemplating a steep hike in the salaries for legislators. Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, in fact, wanted to pass a bill effecting massive hike in the budget session following steep hike in the salaries of sarpanches. Even a signature campaign was taken up by MLAs and MLCs for a pay hike, in the just-concluded budget session.
The government was of the opinion that with a decent remuneration every month the representatives can concentrate better on rendering services to people and not look at ways and means of making additional income!At present, the legislators are drawing about Rs 95,000 per month and the ministers get about Rs 1.5 lakh a month. The government is planning to hike salaries for ordinary members up to Rs 2.3 lakh and for ministers up to Rs 3 lakh.
With passing of two important bills pertaining to the rise in salaries and perks of members of legislative assembly (MLAs) and ministers in Karnataka, the TS government may now go ahead with its proposal to increase the salaries. If the government hikes the salaries as proposed, then TS MLAs will be among the highest paid legislators in the country. The Karnataka government has given a 73 per cent hike. With this each MLA would get over Rs 95,000 per month. In addition to this, the members will be entitled to travel and dearness allowances, constituency maintenance allowance and wages for their personal staff among others.
Till now, the MLAs were paid a salary of Rs 51,000 per month approximately and the ministers in the cabinet drew Rs 3,000 more per month. With the increase in salaries of both ministers and MLAs, the total financial burden on the state exchequer would be Rs 26 crore per annum. According to officials in the state legislature, Karnataka ranks fifth in the country in terms of salaries and allowances to the members of legislative assembly. MLAs in Maharashtra draw the highest salary, followed by Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Delhi.
Apart from the salary and other allowances, the members will also be entitled to 750 litres of petrol as against 500 litres per month paid till now. The salary of the chief minister has been increased from Rs 12,000 to Rs 30,000 per month and the sumptuary allowances have been increased from Rs 75,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh per annum, in addition to other allowances.
