Councillors are demanding a fixed salary
Councillors are demanding a fixed salary
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Taking his demand further, Works Committee Chairman, and BJP councillor Jagdish Mamgain said that he has written a letter to Lieutenant Governor Tejender Khanna in this regard.u00a0 But the corporators seemed to be undecided over what should be their salary -- with demands ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 30,000.
Ruling BJP and Congress councilors put up a united face for a raise in their salaries.
MCD councillors at present get an allowance of Rs 300 for attending each meeting of the civic body's Standing Committee and the House.
Mayor P R Sawhney later told reporters that councillors should get "at least Rs 10,000 per month". The councilors also demanded that the allowance per meeting should also be raised.
"Members of Parliament have raised their pay and allowances while that of the members of Delhi Assembly have also been hiked. Why municipal councillors are being ignored?" Jagdish Mamgain asked.
Mamgain urged the LG to sanction Rs 30,000 per month salary to councillors and demanded that the meeting allowance be raised from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000.
Sops for MLAs
The Delhi Cabinet has approved an almost 200 per cent salary hike for Delhi MLAs earlier this week besides providing personal assistants to all MLAs, free DTC passes, travel in Delhi Metro of up to Rs 1,000 a month and a pension increase.
According to the proposal, an MLA's salary would go up from Rs 42,000 to between Rs 80,000 and Rs 90,000 per month. The salary of the CM and her six cabinet colleagues is likely to increase from Rs 46,000 to 1.25 lakh a month.
The report also suggested an increase in daily allowance from Rs 500 to 1,000 (subject to maximum up to 40 days).
The constituency allowance of legislators has also been proposed to increase from Rs 8,000 to 25,000. The report has also proposed rent-free furnished home for ministers or Rs 25,000 per month (in place of the existing Rs 10,000) as compensatory allowance if residential facility is not availed.
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