400 Salary Hike

A corporator in Mumbai's civic body BMC has demanded a 400 per cent salary hike. Samajwadi Party's Rais Sheikh says his demand is more than justified, given that the salary of a member of one of the richest civic bodies in Asia is Rs 10,000 a month.

A Delhi government bill to give the national capital MLAs a 400 per cent salary hike besides hefty increase in perks and allowances has been returned the second time by the Home Ministry seeking more clarifications.

Hitting out at the Delhi Government for its decision to give a 400 per cent pay hike to lawmakers, Swaraj Abhiyan today said the same people who claimed that they would live a like an "aam aadmi" and not take a bungalow or a big official car have given themselves the "highest" salary hike in the country.

It is impossible to sustain families with a salary of Rs 12,000.

A large contingent of the Congress' youth wing has gathered outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence to protest against a move for a four-fold hike in the salary of Delhi's lawmakers.

A committee appointed by the Delhi assembly speaker has suggested a four-fold increase in the salaries of the lawmakers. If the recommendation is accepted, the basic salary of a legislator will go up from the present Rs 82,000 to Rs 3.2 lakh. It would also be the highest salary for a legislator in the country.

In new state Telangana, where more than 400 debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide since June, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has announced that salaries of all lawmakers will be doubled.

Unlike the chaos in some states, the Assam Assembly's monsoon session has passed off without a glitch. That's because one of the bills introduced was an amendment seeking pay hike for MLAs.  On the last day of the session the legislators gave themselves a raise of whopping 400%.       "There was already a consensu...

A corporator in Mumbai's civic body BMC has demanded a 400 per cent salary hike. Samajwadi Party's Rais Sheikh says his demand is more than justified, given that the salary of a member of one of the richest civic bodies in Asia is Rs 10,000 a month.

A Delhi government bill to give the national capital MLAs a 400 per cent salary hike besides hefty increase in perks and allowances has been returned the second time by the Home Ministry seeking more clarifications.

Hitting out at the Delhi Government for its decision to give a 400 per cent pay hike to lawmakers, Swaraj Abhiyan today said the same people who claimed that they would live a like an "aam aadmi" and not take a bungalow or a big official car have given themselves the "highest" salary hike in the country.

It is impossible to sustain families with a salary of Rs 12,000.

A large contingent of the Congress' youth wing has gathered outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence to protest against a move for a four-fold hike in the salary of Delhi's lawmakers.

A committee appointed by the Delhi assembly speaker has suggested a four-fold increase in the salaries of the lawmakers. If the recommendation is accepted, the basic salary of a legislator will go up from the present Rs 82,000 to Rs 3.2 lakh. It would also be the highest salary for a legislator in the country.

In new state Telangana, where more than 400 debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide since June, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has announced that salaries of all lawmakers will be doubled.

Unlike the chaos in some states, the Assam Assembly's monsoon session has passed off without a glitch. That's because one of the bills introduced was an amendment seeking pay hike for MLAs.  On the last day of the session the legislators gave themselves a raise of whopping 400%.       "There was already a consensu...