Cabinet approves for reducing 30% Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament w.e.f. 1st April, 2020 for a year

Cabinet approves Ordinance amending the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 reducing allowances and pension by 30 per cent w.e.f. 1st April, 2020 for a year

30% Salary Allowances and Pension Cut to the Member of Parliament

Preamble

[Act No. 30 of 1954]

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

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“Under article 106 of the Constitution Members of Parliament are entitled to receive such salaries and allowances as may from time to time be determined by Parliament by law and, until provision in that respect is so made. allowances at such rates and upon such conditions as were immediately before the commencement of the Constitution applicable in the case of Members of the Constituent Assembly.

Parliament has not enacted any law so far with the result that Members have continued to receive allowances at rates which applied to the Members of the Constituent Assembly despite certain changes which have since occurred in the classification of accommodation on railways. This Bill seeks to establish the basis on which salary and allowances should be drawn by Members of Parliament.”-Gaz. of Ind., 1954,dt. 8-5-1954, Pt. II, section 2. Extra., p. 287.

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