Revision as of 11:05, 9 August 2016

The number of persons receiving pensions and family pensions from the Government of India (presumably in 2014-15), according to age and the departments, ministries that they had served; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India

The salary and allowances of Delhi’s MLAs, before and after Dec 2015; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India

The change in the average value of the assets of ‘recontesting’ legislators in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, between 2011 and 2016; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, June 7, 2016

President, VP, governors

As in Aug 2016

President of India: Rs 1.5 lakh a month

Vice-president of India: Rs 1.25 lakh

Governor of a state: Rs 1.1 lakh

The salaries of the President, the vice-president and governors were last fixed in 2008.

Chief ministers’ salaries

2014

Privy to the CM’s purse?

They Take Home Anything Between 1 & 12L Per Year

Harit Mehta & Chitra Unnithan | TNN

The Times of India

Ahmedabad: Chief ministers in India earn between Re 1 and Rs 12 lakh annually. Earning Rs 96,000 per year, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is the ‘poorest’ while Punjab’s Parkash Singh Badal, with a salary of Rs 12 lakh per annum, is ‘richest’.

Tamil Nadu’s J Jayalalithaa takes home a token salary of Re 1, according to Paycheck India, a research initiative of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

While the research at Paycheck India is led by Biju Varkkey, a faculty member of IIM-A, paycheck.in’s technical infrastructure is handled by WageIndicator Foundation, an Amsterdam-based non-profit organization.

At Rs 7,02,260 annually, which is close to Rs 60,000 per month, Gujarat’s Narendra Modi figures at No 6 in the list.

His rival, Bihar’s Nitish Kumar is the second highest paid CM with an annual salary of Rs 11,94,000 which comes to a monthly pay of Rs 99,500.

Paycheck India says it doesn’t have details about the salaries of five CMs: Nabam Tuki (Arunachal Pradesh), Oommen Chandy (Kerala), Naveen Patnaik (Odisha), Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) and Vijay Bahuguna (Uttarakhand).

Maharashtra, 2016

The chief minister will now draw Rs 2.25 lakh a month

2015

State-wise comparisons: Dec 2015

The Times of India, Dec 05 2015

i) MLAs’ salaries in twelve Indian states, as in Dec 2105; ii) Indian MPs’ salaries compared to four other countries ; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, December 5, 2015

Himanshi Dhawan  Delhi MLAs highest paid legislators after Assam

TN, Kerala Netas Earn Less Than Those In Backward States

With a 400% hike in salary , AAP MLAs have become among the highest paid legislators, second only to Assam. Assam MLAs receive Rs 60,000 as basic salary while AAP legislators will now receive Rs 50,000 putting them at par with Members of Parliament. TOI and PRS Legislative analysed basic monthly salary of 18 states but not allowances and perks which differ in each state.While some states have special allowances like stationery and travel, others have perks for travel, power and water subsidy.

The analysis reveals that legislators in prosperous states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala draw lower salaries than their counterparts in “backward states like Jharkhand and Bihar. MLAs in TN get a basic salary of Rs 8000 while those in Kerala -most likely the lowest paid-receive Rs 1000. In comparison, those in Jharkhand and Bihar receive Rs 30,000, at par with legislators in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. Punjab MLAs draw a monthly pay packet of Rs 25,000 while Andhra Pradesh legislators get Rs 12,000.

Interestingly , though Indian MPs are among the highest paid (Rs 50,000 per month) elected representatives in India, they are among the lowest paid internationally . Analysis of MP salaries by `Factly .in' based on the Inter-Parliamentary Survey (IPU) report (in gross amount before tax) per parliamentarian per year in the year 2012 shows that the average annual parliamentary salary is $62,075 (in purchasing power parity (PPP dollars).

“While there is a lot of criticism surrounding the salary of Indian MPs, their basic salary is on the low er side when compared to most other developed countries. The nearest to the salary received by an Indian MP is by a South African MP who receives more than twice the amount received by his Indian counterpart.The highest salary is received by an Australian MP , about 6.5 times the amount received amount received by an Indian MP .Even a Brazilian MP receives more than 6 times the basic salary of an Indian MP . An Indian MP earns roughly one-sixth of what his American counterpart gets as a basic salary , Rakesh Dubbudu