Bill To Temporarily Reduce Salaries of Lawmakers

admin September 16, 2020 Daily Current Affairs

The government has pushed two bills to temporarily reduce salaries and allowances of lawmakers and ministers in view of austerity measures following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Under Article 106 of the Constitution, Indian lawmakers fix their own salaries.
Lok Sabha passed a bill to reduce salaries of lawmakers by 30% for one year.
Rajya Sabha will take up the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers (Amendment) Bill, 2020 for consideration and passage.
The bill amends the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1952, the law that stipulates how much ministers, including the Prime Minister, get paid.
The allowances bill cuts by 30% ministers’ monthly sumptuary allowance for a period of one year, effective from April 1, 2020.
Sumptuary allowance is the lawmakers’ equivalent of a visitors’ entertainment reimbursement, a common paycheque head in the corporate world.