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After election to LokSabha, the members become entitled to salaries, allowances, travelling facilities, medical facilities, accommodation, telephones, etc . These amenities are provided to members with a view to enable them to function effectively as Members of Parliament.  These are governed by the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 and the rules/amendment of it.

What MPs Earn

An MP , since Aug 2010, is paid a base salary of  Rs 50,000 per month and is entitled to a pension of 20,000 per month. If an MP serves as a member for a period exceeding five years, this pension increases by 1,500 for each additional year of service. In addition, MPs are compensated for official expenses through various allowances :

• Daily allowance of 2,000 for each day of attending Parliament. Parliament has three sessions every year. The Budget Session (February to May), Monsoon session (July to September), and Winter session (November and December).
• Constituency allowance for expenses incurred in the constituency of 45,000 per month and
• Office expenses of Rs 45,000  for staff (limit of 30,000), stationery and postage(15,000)  per month

An MP’s wage is tax-free and comes with additional  perquisites such as free petrol, free telephone calls and free housing. Most household  expenses , furniture, electricity, water, laundry , is also paid for . MPs can travel anywhere in the country by rail, first class, and get 34  free air tickets for themselves or a companion a year. Spouses of MPs can  travel free by air from their residence to New Delhi eight times a year when Parliament  is in session and unlimited number of times by rail.

• Each MP gets near-free electricity of 50,000 units every year. And free water.
• The MP’s bungalow is furnished — with air conditioners, refrigerators and television sets — free of cost. Maintenance of the house — including washing of sofa covers and curtains — is done free of cost by the government.
• MPs are entitled to three phone lines and 170,000 free local calls every year.
• When an MP travels abroad officially, he is entitled to free business class air tickets. He is also paid a daily travelling allowance, which varies depending upon the country being visited.
• Most medical expenses of MPs are taken care of by the Contributory Health Service Scheme of the Union government.

How salary of MPs have changed over period of time

The act was written in 22nd May, 1954 and came into effect on 1st June 1954. Till today it has been amended 28 times by Acts Nos.

• 9 of 1955, 55 of 1958, 26 of 1964, 25 of 1969, 29 of 1972, 65 of  1974, 48 of 1975, 105 of 1976, 33 of 1977, 27 of 1979,
• 21 of 1981, 35 of 1982, 61 of 1982, 22 of 1983, 74 of 1985, 60 of 1988, 30 of 1989, 3 of 1993, 48 of 1993, 18 of 1995,
• 28 of  1998, 16 of 1999, 17 of 2000, 46 of 2001, 34 of 2002,9 of 2004, 40 of 2006 and 37 of 2010

Some of the changes over the years have been as follows:

• In 1968 MP’s salary was Rs 400 + Rs  31 Daily Allowance
• From 1969 to 1985 salary was Rs 500 + Rs 51 Daily Allowance
• Pension for MPs  was introduced in 1977
• In 1985 salary was Rs 1500
• Since 2010 it is Rs 1,40,000

On August 27, 2010, Indian Members of Parliament voted themselves a threefold hike in their basic salary, from Rs 16,000 to Rs 50,000 and doubled the constituency and office expense allowances to 40,000 each. MPs will thus receive an assured income of Rs 1.3 lakh (a salary of Rs 50,000 plus constituency allowance of Rs 40,000 and office or stationary allowance of Rs 40,000) a month. According to one  calculation, after the hikes of the MPs’ salaries, perks and allowances, they  will earn 68 times more than what an average person earns annually.

It is interesting to note that Indian MPs are paid lower than many Government bureaucrats, even though they outrank them in the order of precedence. During the debate in Parliament, several MPs recommended that their salaries be pegged at one rupee more than the salary of the Secretary to the Government of India. This would also result in automatic revision with each Pay Commission award. Two former chief ministers and  leaders of their respective parties, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav,  demanded a 500% hike in salaries for MPs and stalled proceedings in Parliament during  the debate on the salary increase in 2010. They wanted the basic salary to be  fixed at Rs 80,001, one rupee more than the salary of a secretary in the  Government of India. However, while most MPs run businesses from where they  derive income, for bureaucrats, their salaries are usually their sole source of  income. Moreover, while a bureaucrat gets pension after serving for 30-35  years, an MP is entitled to pension even if he has spent just one day in  Parliament. Nor do bureaucrats get a daily allowance for attending office every  day as MPs do for attending Parliament. Comparison of salaries of MPs with Government bureaucrats from PRSIndia document of 2010 How much India pays its legislators (pdf)

Montlhy base salary of Govt. officials in India

Salary of MPs in comparison with Rest of World

An outdated but to give you an idea of how salary of MP’s compare with rest of world from PRSIndia document of 2010 How much India pays its legislators (pdf) is as follows. To find current salary of Member of Parliament you can refer to documents at Ministry of Parliament Affairs website such asAnnual Report 2013-14: Salary of MPs of India

Salaries of National Legislators across countries, when adjusted for the relative cost of living, provide a useful metric for comparison. The adjustment is done using the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) which takes into account the relative prices of products in each country. On PPP-adjusted terms, Indian MPs earn about 25% of their counterparts in the US. In fact, most advanced democracies pay their national legislators an amount significantly higher than India. Parliaments in these advanced democracies also provide higher level of support to their legislators. For instance, the allowances accorded for hiring support staff. Whereas an Indian MP gets an allowance of `28,000 per month (as part of office expenses) for hiring assistants, his counterpart, the US Congressman gets $70,000 per month and can hire up to 18 permanent employees.

Comparison of salary of MPs of India with rest of world

But the way it differentiates from rest of World is that in India MPs decide their own salary.

In France  and Japan,  salaries of MPs are determined in relation to the salaries of the highest paid  bureaucrats.

In Germany,  Article 48 (3) of the Basic Law says that the members of Bundestag will get  remuneration adequate enough to ensure their independence.

In Switzerland, parliamentarians do  not get any salary or allowance. They just get paid leave from their employers  on the days of session.

In Mexico,  MPs are paid handsomely, but they cannot do any business or practise any  profession. They cannot even be officebearers of any political party.

In the USA, members of  Congress cannot earn more than 15% from outside of their Congressional salary.  There is no such bar on the MPs or MLAs in India.An MP who has a defence equipment business is allowed to  be on a defence committee which formulates defence policy and a parliamentarian  who has aviation interests to be on a civil aviation committee, thereby making  policy changes which benefit them individually.

In the UK,  the Review Body on Senior Salaries established by law, advises the prime  minister on the pay and pensions of MPs, ministers, judges, defence personnel,  senior civil officers and other such high posts. It is an independent body  consisting of non-MPs who have served in high positions in the judicial and  managerial offices with distinction.

 

Salary of MLA

Salaries of MLA are decided by the states. There is wide variation in MLA salaries across state assemblies. Other than salary, MLAs also get similar facilities like MPs – daily allowance, constituency allowance, office expenses allowance, provisions for accommodation, travel etc. As is the case with salaries, these too vary across states.

Salary of Delhi MLA

Salary of Delhi MLA’s  from their webpage MLA Salaries & Allowances Of Ministers//Speaker/Dy. Speaker/Leader Of Opposition/Chief Whip

1.	Salary	Rs. 12,000/- per mensem
2.	Constituency Allowance	Rs. 18,000/- per mensem
3.	Secretarial Allowance	Rs. 10,000/- per month
4.	Conveyance Allowance	Rs. 6,000/- per month
5.	Telephone Facilities	Rs. 8,000/- per month to meet the cost of telephone call charges
6.	Daily Allowance	Rs. 1,000/- per day (subject to a maximum up to 40 days per year) for attending Assembly session/committee meetings etc.
7.	Conveyance Advance	Upto Rs. 4,00,000/- (repayable within his office term)

 

Salary of MLA in Maharashtra

The bill passed in Dec 2010, resulted in an increase of the legislators’ salary from Rs 44,000 to Rs 75,000 and ministers’ salary from Rs 29,000 to Rs 67,000. However, in a rare case, the bill was given a retrospective effect. Bill was passed in December 2010 but the rise was effected from April 2010

Salary of MLAs in Karantaka

Passing of Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill, 2011 and Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances (Second Amendment) Bill, 2011 paved the way for raising the salaries of MLAs by an average of 73 per cent to over Rs 95,000 per month. Till then, the MLAs were paid a salary of Rs 51,000 per month approximately and the ministers in the cabinet drew Rs 3,000 more per month. In addition to this, the members will be entitled to travel and dearness allowances, constituency maintenance allowance and wages for their personal staff among others. Apart from the salary and other allowances, the members will also be entitled to 750 litres of petrol as against 500 litres per month paid till now.Ref Business Standard 

Paycheck India, led by Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad faculty member Biju Varkkey, has compiled interesting data on the salaries of India’s ruling elite, including the PM, President and chief ministers (around 2013). According to their data, ignoring Rs 1 annual salary by Tamil Naidu Chief Minister Rs 1,West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is the poorest CM earning Rs 96,000 per year while Punjab’s Parkash Singh Badal, with a salary of Rs 12 lakh per annum, is the richest.

Name of CM	State	Monthly Salary	Annual Salary
Nitish Kumar	Bihar	99,500	11,94,000
Parkash Singh Badal	Punjab	1,00,000	12,00,000
Tarun Gogoi	Assam	83,000	9,96,000
Omar Abdullah	Jammu and Kashmir	70,000	8,40,000
Prithviraj Chavan	Maharashtra	57,000	6,84,000
Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Madhya Pradesh	50,000	6,00,000
Vasundhara Raje	Rajasthan	25,000	3,00,000
Manohar Parrikar	Goa	20,000	2,40,000
Mamata Banerjee	West Bengal	8,000	96,000
J Jayalalithaa	Tamil Nadu		1

Salary and Perks of Prime Minister of India

 From PM Salary document (pdf) atWebsite of PM of Indiahttp://pmindia.nic.in/. Our article President of India and Rashtrapati Bhavan shows that Pranab Mukherjee will draw a salary of Rs.1.5 lakh a month

Pay and allowances of PM of India

How does PM of India Travel

From Times of India 17 th May 2014

How does PM of India travel

Post retirement benefits of PM of India

From Times of India 17 th May 2014 Post retirement benefits of PM of India are given below

Benefits of PM post retirement

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