Jharkhand MLAs set to get monthly salary, allowance of Rs 2.88lakh; highest in country
Jharkhand MLAs are set to increase significantly as the special committee on pay hikes constituted by the Assembly has submitted its report to Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato, and it is likely to be implemented soon. Once implemented, the legislators will become the highest-earning MLAs in the country with a monthly salary and allowances of Rs 2.88 lakh. Presently, the MLAs of Telangana get a maximum amount of Rs 2.50 lakh per month.
In the budget session of the Assembly, the legislators from both sides — ruling and opposition — unanimously passed the proposal for a salary hike. On the basis of this proposal, a special committee of five MLAs was constituted, which has now submitted its report to the Speaker. The committee was headed by senior BJP MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi, while the other four members were Congress's Pradeep Yadav, and Deepik Pandey Singh, JMM's Sameer Kumar Mohanty, and BJP's Bhanupratap Shahi.
It is believed that the report of the special committee will be implemented soon because the legislators from the ruling party to the opposition are unanimous on it. This will be the seventh salary hike for legislators of Jharkhand, the state which came into existence on 15 November 2000. The last salary hike was done in 2017, during the tenure of the then Raghuvar Das government.
The salaries and allowances of the MLAs were increased by about 33 per cent in 2017. In the year 2001, the MLAs of Jharkhand used to get only Rs 19,800 as salary and allowance. Now after the new increment, they will get almost 14 times more money than what they used to get in 2001.
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