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The Odisha Assembly has a passed a Bill to triple the monthly wage of the Chief Minister, Ministers, and MLAs, and instrumentality a threefold hike successful pension of legislators, making the State’s wage and pension operation for elected representatives among the highest successful the country.
The provisions of the Bill, passed connected Tuesday evening, volition beryllium implemented with retrospective effect from June 5, 2024.
The Chief Minister volition present gully ₹3.74 lakh per month, comprising wage of ₹1 lakh, car allowance of ₹91,000, and sumptuary allowance of ₹1.83 lakh. The Deputy CM’s revised monthly wage stands astatine ₹3.68 lakh portion Cabinet Ministers volition person ₹3.62 lakh and Ministers of State ₹3.56 lakh. The Speaker’s wage and allowances person been hiked to ₹3.68 lakh. The Deputy Speaker volition person ₹3.56 lakh portion the Leader of the Opposition and Government Chief Whip volition gully monthly wage of ₹3.62 lakh.
Under the revised wage structure, an MLA volition gully ₹3.45 lakh per period against the ₹1.10 lakh successful 2007. Basic wage has been hiked from ₹35,000 to ₹90,000, constituency and secretarial allowance from ₹20,000 to ₹75,000, conveyance allowance from ₹15,000 to ₹50,000, fixed allowance from ₹10,000 to ₹50,000, books, journals, and periodicals allowance from ₹2,000 to ₹10,000, energy allowance from ₹5,000 to ₹20,000, and telephone allowance from ₹8,000 to ₹15,000. Former MLAs volition person monthly pension of implicit ₹1.20 lakh.
MLAs from Telangana and Maharashtra are among the highest paid people’s representatives successful the state with monthly wage of implicit ₹2.5 lakh.
“During past 8 years, wage and pension of MLAs, Leader of the Opposition, Government Chief Whip, and Deputy Government Chief Whip remained unchanged. Taking into relationship inflation, salaries being paid to MLAs successful antithetic States, and the proposal of the advisory committee of the Odisha Legislative Assembly, it is considered desirable to heighten the wage and allowance,” said State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Mahaling.
