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Accounting for performance: MPs need better pay to deliver results
When MPs' salaries were raised in 2018, then finance minister Arun Jaitley introduced a proposal for automatic revision every five years
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The adequacy of pay for an elected public servant in a democracy also remains an open question. Prima facie, the package of ₹2.86 lakh is roughly on a par with the pay and allowances of the country’s top bureaucrats. (Illustration: Binay Sinha)
Members of Parliament (MPs) have finally been granted a rise in salary and allowances after five years. The 24 per cent rise in basic pay from ₹1 lakh to ₹1.24 lakh a month with retrospective effect from April 1, 2023, has attracted headlines, as much as the monthly package of ₹2.86 lakh when sundry allowances are added. Apart from the fact that this pay increase is overdue, questions must arise over the exercise to determine MP compensation as much as the adequacy of the pay for the elected representative in a country of India’s size and complexity.
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