Re: [HumJanenge] When will abnormally high allowances being paid to MPs be withdrawn?

Reaearch Section of Parliament can provide info on History of pay and perks of parliamentarians.

The answers will be given more easily if someone were conducting research in this or related area,like performance criteria vs

pay/perks of parliamerntarians vis-a-vis say,judges/senior bureaucrats/Statutory Commission's Chairpersonsor Members.

Some Public Admin/Political Sc PG could be requested to take up a challenging subject for M Phil/PhD dissertation.

Media folks could easily do so w/o all this trouble through their research wings/cells.

No need to have conjectures.

spm

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:24 PM, M K Singhal <mk.singhal@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

I am not sure but I think neither MPs salary nor their allowances are taxed.  mksinghal

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From: Col Mohan <topchi2009@gmail.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, 20 September 2011 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] When will abnormally high allowances being paid to MPs be withdrawn?



A bit curious! How much of the MPs' perks is taxable? Or is it Tax Free since these are all perks?

Mohan

 

----- Original Message -----

From: M K Singhal

To: undisclosed recipients:

Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 10:17 AM

Subject: [HumJanenge] When will abnormally high allowances being paid to MPs be withdrawn?

Alarmed by Anna's movement, Govt Of India recently withdrew discretionary quota given to MPs. By when will other perks given to MPS, like abnormally high petrol, electricity payments and almost free canteen food, be withdrawn from MPs. Also, now that MPs salaries are comensurate with those of the highest civil servants, why should MPs other allowances like house rent, travelling allowance, daily allowance etc not be commensurate with similiar civil servants, if not lower, and not continue to be abnormally high..

mksinghal