MPs Salary Issue

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

When MPs' salaries were raised in 2018, then finance minister Arun Jaitley introduced a proposal for automatic revision every five years

The apex court observed this while hearing a petition which has raised several questions including how MPs could themselves determine their salaries