Festival of Salaries and Perks Hike

    Monsoon session of parliament inflate the pockets of members with hefty rise in their salaries and perks but along with this it was sure that soon state assemblies will also follow trend of amending salaries and perks hike reagrdlessly without considering the economical condition of there states exchequer whether it can bear avoidable financial burden or not, within the period of just fortnight three state assembly's revise salaries and perks of their members and they are –

• Maharashtra State Assembly
• Haryana State Assembly
• Punjab State Assembly

the biggest shocking part of salaries and perks hike saga is that general public is vocal against rising price of essential commodities and inflation from almost more then year and government is giving false assurances to countrymen that it is in process to control price rise but on ground its not appearing that it has any stringent plan or initiatives to reduce the heat of roaring demon of inflation instead it was going to south end further with every passing day, but at the same time government not forget to take care of its employees by increasing dearness allowances or incentives. Below are details of amendment of salaries and perks hike of three state assemblies –
Punjab State –

• Chief Minster Salary increase from 30,000 rupees to 50,000 rupees
• Cabinet Minster Salary from present rupees 15,000 to rupees 30,000
• Legislative Members 4,000 rupees to 10,000 rupees
• Constituency allowance 8,000 rupees to 15,000 rupees
• Sundry Allowances from 2,000 rupees to 3,000 rupees
• Daily Allowance from 5,00 rupees to 1,000 rupees

plus other allowances get hefty jump like telephone allowances, travel allowances.

• Pension revise from 5,000 rupees to 7,500 rupees and other then this they are also entitle for dearness allowances separately.

Haryana State -

• Members will get salary of rupees 10,000 per month
• Constituency allowances 15,000 rupees to 20,000 rupees
• Office allowances from 2,500 rupees to 5,000 rupees
• Guest allowances 3,000 to 5,000 rupees
• Daily allowances from 1,000 to 1,500 rupees
• Traveling allowances 12 kilometers to 15 kilometers

so after this amendments comes into force then members will get allowances from present 35,500 rupees per month to 55,000 rupees per month, pension increase from 5,000 rupees to 7,500 rupees plus dearness allowance.
Maharashtra State –
The total monthly salary and perks for a legislator, which now comes to rupees 44,500, should be raised to rupees 71,500. The Bill to approve the hike will be placed in the state legislature’s winter session in Nagpur. A pay hike has been a long standing demand of state legislators. While the panel has said the basic salary and other allowances, barring the stationery allowance, should go up by rupees 2,000 each, it has asked the state to clear rupees 21,000 hike in constituency allowance, thus taking it from rupees 25,000 to rupees 46,000.
Basic Salaries of some state assembly’s members are –

• Gujarat rupees 21,000
• Delhi rupees 90,000
• Karnataka rupees 12,000
• Assam’s legislators basic pay which is recently increased from rupees 12,000 to rupees 40,000.

Being representative of public and state they should first consider the economical condition of exchequer and public reaction before inflating there pockets as they themselves are entitle for amendment of their salaries and perks hike.