Pay Panel for Legislators
Disruptions dictate parliamentary agenda, and rightly therefore there's public outcry over the right of lawmakers to decide their pay and perks. Secretaries don't sit and decide on their own salaries. The public pressure seems to be working, as the is ready with a proposal which if accepted by all parties and legislative entities, may take away the right of lawmakers to pass bills for their own salary hike. The Left alone has opposed it, and they're not in the Committee.
We don’t have respectable pension for defence forces who are on hunger strike. Person in defence forces 15 years and he isn't eligible for pension. But an MP with only 4 years gets a life long Pension; and some times double pension if he was an MLA before. No one earns pension of Rs 25K with 5 years work. Why MPs demands pension, when Central and many State Govts have stopped pension to their employees? Every new recruitee is asked to join NPS. MPs too can opt for such scheme. Why this double standard? Modi spared no time increasing MPs pension by 75% (which thus jumped from 10 thousand in 2010 to 35 thousand in 2014 (three-and-a-half times in 4 years).
Let's compare UK, Germany and other common wealth counties and our netas must be worthy. They fight for the people,and hence deserve every bit of hike. In England, Parliament sits throughout the year, except for a few weeks here and there, because there's no provision, (in USA too), for ordinance (lawmaking during recession of Parliament). We have only ordinance route! Hence, Parliament only sits for 80 days or so in a year.
Let's have single permanent pay panel for legislators (for both Centre and states). For the simple reason of their casual behavour, it's unjustified to allow such heavy hikes at such frequent intervals. There should be a grievance cell for people to lodge complaints against such atrocious actions in passing such hikes, simply and unanimously.
Disruptions dictate parliamentary agenda, and rightly therefore there's public outcry over the right of lawmakers to decide their pay and perks. Secretaries don't sit and decide on their own salaries. The public pressure seems to be working, as the is ready with a proposal which if accepted by all parties and legislative entities, may take away the right of lawmakers to pass bills for their own salary hike. The Left alone has opposed it, and they're not in the Committee.
We don’t have respectable pension for defence forces who are on hunger strike. Person in defence forces 15 years and he isn't eligible for pension. But an MP with only 4 years gets a life long Pension; and some times double pension if he was an MLA before. No one earns pension of Rs 25K with 5 years work. Why MPs demands pension, when Central and many State Govts have stopped pension to their employees? Every new recruitee is asked to join NPS. MPs too can opt for such scheme. Why this double standard? Modi spared no time increasing MPs pension by 75% (which thus jumped from 10 thousand in 2010 to 35 thousand in 2014 (three-and-a-half times in 4 years).
Let's compare UK, Germany and other common wealth counties and our netas must be worthy. They fight for the people,and hence deserve every bit of hike. In England, Parliament sits throughout the year, except for a few weeks here and there, because there's no provision, (in USA too), for ordinance (lawmaking during recession of Parliament). We have only ordinance route! Hence, Parliament only sits for 80 days or so in a year.
Let's have single permanent pay panel for legislators (for both Centre and states). For the simple reason of their casual behavour, it's unjustified to allow such heavy hikes at such frequent intervals. There should be a grievance cell for people to lodge complaints against such atrocious actions in passing such hikes, simply and unanimously.
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