Mr. Chakraborty, please have a look at this Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP) Monthly Salary : 12,000 Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000 Office expenditure per month : 14,000 Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000 (eg.For a visit from kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km) Daily DA TA during parliament meets : 500/day Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train: Free (For any number of times)(All over India) Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.) Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units Local phone call charge : Free up to 1,70,000 calls. TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : 32,00,000 [i.e. 2.66 lakh/month] TOTAL expense for 5 years : 1,60,00,000 For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : 8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 crores) Think of MLA's and Ministers in India of 28 states and their expenditures per month. BUT OUR PRIME MINISTER IS ASKING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, OUT PERFORMING CEOs TO CUT DOWN THE SALARIES OF IT AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS….. This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities........ And we all know what is the present condition of our country.
855 crores could make the poor people's life livable !! Think of the great democracy we have.......... PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL REAL CITIZENS OF INDIA ... but, STILL BE PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN .. I
RE:'Non-communal BJP? You must be kidding!'
by Sanjay Joshi on Jul 17, 2008 03:26 PM Permalink
Besides these bugers pay no "Income_Tax" at all on these official as well as hidden incomes/previleges---
RE:'Non-communal BJP? You must be kidding!'
by ganesh subi on Jul 17, 2008 02:58 PM Permalink
All the CPI(M) MPs give their salary to the party. They get allowance from the party as other full time party worker get.
RE:'Non-communal BJP? You must be kidding!'
by RAVINDRAN MANNYAN on Jul 17, 2008 02:42 PM Permalink
last time the L.S.passed a bill for hike in the salary of M.P.s in both the house and the procedings starting from introduction of bill is completed with in 15 minutes. A bill of reservstion for women in parliament and assembly is still under discussion for 15 years.
