MPs Salary

More than Rs 262 crore was spent on salaries, allowances and facilities for all sitting Rajya Sabha MPs in the last two financial years 2024-25 and 2025-26, with over Rs 151 crore spent on their allowances and travel alone, an RTI reply has shown. In 2024-25, the state exchequer spent over Rs 98 crore on Rajya Sabha members, which significantly increased to Rs 163 crore in 2025-26, a rise of Rs 65 crore. The amount includes domestic travel, international travel, office expenses and medical bills. In 2024-25, salaries amounted to over Rs 25.71 crore, medical bills to Rs 8.2 crore, tour expenses to Rs 24.99 crore and allowances to the MPs to over Rs 33.33 crore. In 2025-26, salaries amounted to over Rs 44.6 crore, medical bills to Rs 9.6 crore, tour expenses to Rs 36 crore and allowances to over Rs 58.78 crore, according to the reply given by Rajya Sabha Secretariat to a query filed by applicant Chander Shekhar Gaur. The Rajya Sabha MPs are entitled to a total of 21 object heads, wh

The Pakistani government has formally raised the monthly salaries of the National Assembly speaker and the Senate chairman to Rs 1.3 million, according to a media report on Saturday. The new salary marks a significant rise from their previous salary of Rs 205,000. The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs issued the notification on May 29, but details surfaced on Friday, Samaa TV reported. The monthly salary for both officials has been fixed at Rs 1.3 million and they will also receive an additional 50 per cent as a temporary allowance on top of it, according to the notification. The revised salary structure will be effective retrospectively from January 1, 2025. Earlier on March 21, it was reported that the salaries and allowances of federal cabinet members had been significantly increased, with federal ministers, ministers of state and advisers receiving hikes of up to 188 per cent. Sources had said that the federal ministers approved a summary of the salary increments for themselv

Instead of Rs 70,000 a month constituency allowance they will get Rs 49,000 from April 1 this year, according to notifications issued by the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats.

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