After 7th Pay Commission recommendations, Cabinet approves 100 per cent salary hike for MPs!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will decide whether to sanction the changes or not. If he does, then Parliamentarians will take home a basic salary of One Lakh per month, instead of Rs, 50,000, besides other allowances.

New Delhi, July 18: After the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission lead to an increase in the salaries of government employees, now the salaries of Members of Parliament are also set to see a huge raise- 100%! A new recommendation has suggested the jump of basic salaries of our Parliamentarians from Rs. 50,000 to a Lakh per month, besides other benefits. The recommendations were first suggested by the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament under Yogi Adityanath, and was then sanctioned by a group of ministers and submitted to the Cabinet.

Now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will decide whether to sanction the changes or not. If he does, then the Parliament will be likely to approve them too, during the ongoing monsoon session, which began today and will end in the first week of August. The new salaries are to be effective from April, this year, suggested the recommendation. But this is not all. Other allowances and benefits are also set to rise exponentially. The constituency allowance, which takes care of the MP’s travel and additional expenses in covering his/her particular constituency, is expected to shoot up to Rs. 90,000! 

The raise also stands true for salaries of office staff of MPs. The annual furniture allowance for the MPs’ official homes will be increased to Rs 1,50,000, while free broadband worth Rs. 1,700 per month, will be provided to the MPs at their official homes in their constituencies. Pensions of former MPs have also been revised and increased from Rs 20,000 to Rs 35,000. The basic compensation for an Indian Parliament lawmaker will climb from Rs. 1,90,000 per month to 2,80,000 (salary along with constituency and office staff allowances).

This is the first revision in the salaries of Parliamentarians comes after six years. But not everyone is in favour of the increase. Speaking to NDTV, Prasun Banerjee of Trinamool Congress said, ”I am against this increase. We are working here for the service of the people, and what we get is sufficient.”