New Delhi. Central government’s approval has been given to increase the salary of MLAs in Delhi. After this approval of the central government, there will be a bumper increase in the salary of MLAs, not 5 or 10. Let us tell you, at present, MLAs get Rs 54 thousand every month after getting all the allowances, whereas after the approval of the government, now they will start getting 90 thousand rupees every month.
What is the salary of MLAs
At present, the basic salary of MLAs is Rs 12000 per month. Which will now increase to 20 thousand. At the same time, the salary which used to be 54 thousand including allowances will increase to 90 thousand rupees. This proposal was first sent by the Delhi government to the Center in the year 2015, but then it could not be approved. At the same time, the Speaker of the Delhi Assembly says that the proposal that has come from the Center has been truncated.
Giving information, Speaker Ram Niwas Goyal said that the last time the salary of MLAs was increased in the year 2011, but after 11 years such a low salary increase is not appropriate. Goyal said, ‘In Delhi also MLAs should get the same salary and allowances as in other states’. It is also being said that after the approval of the Center, now the bill to increase the salary of MLAs in the Delhi Assembly will be brought in the next session.
The proposal was sent to the central government in 2015.
In the year 2015, on behalf of the Delhi government, the law to increase the salaries of MLAs was passed by the Delhi Assembly and sent to the central government, but it was rejected by the center. At that time, the Central Government has given some suggestions regarding the matter of salary and allowances of MLAs. Now on the basis of these suggestions, the Delhi cabinet had approved it in August 2021 and sent the proposal to the Center again. Now only this has been approved by the Centre.