Bangalore, Jun 8 (PTI) The monthly salary of Karnataka Chief Minister would jump two-and-a-half times while pay packets of ministers and legislators would double, as per an amendment bill passed in the state Legislative Assembly here..
According to the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances Act, 1956 (Karnataka Act 5 of 1957), the Chief Minister was being paid a monthly salary of Rs 12,000. The amendment bill takes it to Rs 30,000.
Similarly, Cabinet Ministers' salary would go up from Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 and that of Ministers of State from Rs 8,000 to Rs 16,000.
Besides salaries, house rent allowances, conveyance allowances and rates of travelling allowance and dearness allowance have also been revised.
"There is a considerable increase in cost of living.