Do They Deserve Salaries & Perks Hike?

    Members of both the houses were confident that current session of parliament will inflate their pockets once bill present in the house of salaries and perks hike of Members of Parliaments, but because of some reasons cabinet defer the bill and as the news came of delaying of bill, members next day disrupt the house proceedings and demand for Salary hike bill to be table in the house, then finance minister gave assurance to the members that it will present in the house during current session. Next day bill presented in the house which was pass without any debate and objection from any party whether it was ruling or opposition barring left, even after more then three fold jumps in the salary and almost double the perks members were not satisfied and want salaries increase to 80,001 rupees which is rupees one more from Secretary. Till date seven times bill was presented in the house of salaries or perks hike of members and they are -

• First loksabha members salary was – 400 rupees
• During 1964 it was revised to 500 rupees
• In 1983 it was increased to 750 rupees
• In the year 2006 it raised to 16000 rupees

Perks revised-

• 1954 daily allowance was 21 rupees
• 2006 it revised to 1000 rupees

Pension revise-

• 1978 it was rupees 300
• 2006 it amended to 8000 rupees

Recently after revision members of both the houses’ are entitle for below coded salaries and perks-

• Salary – Rupees 50,000 from present 16000 rupees
• Office Allowance – from present rupees 20000 to rupees 45000
• Constituency allowances – rupees 20000 to rupees 45000
• Daily Allowances – rupees 1000 to rupees 2000 attending parliament
• Pension- rupees 8000 to rupees 20000
• Free Air Travel – 34 in a year
• Railways 1st class A.C .traveling – unlimited along with one other person
• Interest free loan for car – from one lakh present it increases to 4 lakhs
• Road mileage per kilometer – 13 rupees it increases to 16 rupees
• Rent free house in posh area of new Delhi
• along with above coded they get benefits on telephone calls, and electricity units.

      Despite all these facilities and benefits members were still not happy and demanding pay hike to rupees 80001, but it will be shock that number of working days reduce from 124 days in fifties decade to 81 days in nineties decade which is 34 percent but they never demand for increase in working days and that’s not all even they disrupt the house proceedings, stage walk out, absent from the house, skip for question hours which mean there presence in the house are far less then mentioned above days. It is worth mentioning here that cost of running house proceedings is 1.4 million rupees per hour.
     In the world there is nobody entitle for revision of their salary and perks hikes except Indian parliamentarians. It is high time that members should be strip off from the power of salary and perks hikes and autonomous body should be constitute which should look into the salary and perks of members and members should be entitle for jumps in salary and perks on to their performance like presence in house, else general public will keep on getting intolerable flame from M.P.s of inflating their pockets as per their desire as this is not happen first time and also this is not happen for last time.