MPs want more Money

Member of Parliaments in India get a monthly salary of Rs. 16,000/- per month.  Considering that average fresher in a big IT firm gets that much amount these days, the money is less. The MPs of all parties have United to introduce a bill so as to increase their salary from current to Rs. 50,000/- per month. A government secretary gets Rs. 80,000/- per month. This is of course the ONLY issue where all MPS from all parties have united, but natural as well.

Of course the MPs additionally gets lots of perks such as constituency fund of Rs. 20,000/- , Office Expenses of Rs. 20,000/- free phone calls and free house to stay, free travel and lots of other things in their day to day life. This is all official and what they get ‘unofficially’ is anybody’s guess.

However a committee was formed and they decided to raise the salary to Rs. 50,000/ per month. The MPS wanted more but have now settled for that amount. Although the Cabinet discussed the issue and have kept in ‘on hold’ as they did not like the idea of  increasing their salaries at the time when farmers are committing suicide, people are dying of hunger, there are allegations of corruption in CWG games and generally the nation is burning with high inflation.

Lets see how long do they hold onto this “Important Decision.”