Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, May 21: Commoners are having a tough time to make ends meet due to the continuous rising prices of essentials like cooking oil, vegetables, cooking gas, etc.
In addition, the burden is higher due to ever sky rocketing prices of petrol, diesel, gold and silver. But it seems people’s representatives are not bothered about the plight of commoners. Their salaries have been hiked to a whopping Rs 2.05 lac per month.
In February, 2022 an amendment to the salary, pension and allowance act was passed in the legislative assembly to this effect. J C Madhswamy, minister for law and parliamentary affairs had presented the amendment in the legislative assembly and got the bill passed.
The basic salary of a MLA is Rs 40,000. The MLA gets a constituency allowance of Rs 60000 besides a constituency travel allowance of Rs 60000, an allowance for staff and assistants of Rs 20000, a postal allowance of Rs 5000 and a phone allowance of Rs 20000.
According to the new pay scales there is a 60% increase in the salaries of MLAs and MLCs, 50% increase in salaries of CM, ministers, speaker and leader of opposition.
The revised pay scales will be applicable for MLAs with effect from April 1, 2022 itself. The hike in salaries of people's representatives will cost a whopping Rs 92.40 crore to the state exchequer annually.