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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Dhumal Govt proposes to hike salaries of Speaker, Ministers

The Himachal Chief Minister PK Dhumal introduced on Wednesday four amendment Bills, seeking to hike the salaries and allowances of Ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, CPS and MLAs.

Salary of MLAs is proposed to be raised from Rs 8,000 to Rs 15,000 per month while the Constituency allowance would be almost doubled to Rs 20,000. The basic pension of ex-MLAs for one term is also proposed to be doubled from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 while the hike for every additional would be Rs 400 instead of Rs 200 at present.

Salary of the Chief Minister would be raised from Rs 18,000 to Rs 34,000; the Ministers would get an increased salary of Rs 31,000, up from current Rs 15,000, while the State Ministers’ salary would go up from Rs 11,000 to Rs 28,000 and that of Deputy Ministers from Rs 10,000 to Rs 27,000.

The salary of the Speaker would be Rs 31,000 at par with the Cabinet Ministers and the Deputy Speaker would draw a salary of Rs 28,000, equivalent to the Ministers of State.

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