NDTV: Indore: Wednesday, November 14, 2018.
According to the data, the salary bill of
lawmakers between 2013 and 2018 was Rs. 32.03 crore, while they were paid Rs.
117 crore in various allowances in the same period.
As Madhya Pradesh prepares for assembly
elections, an RTI has revealed that Rs. 149 crore were paid from state
treasuries in salaries and allowances to 231 outgoing legislators in last five
years.
The allowances were over three times the
salary bill, the data shows.
According to the data furnished under the
Right to Information by the Assembly secretariat, the salary bill of lawmakers
between April 2013 and September 2018 was Rs. 32.03 crore, while they were paid
Rs. 117 crores in various allowances in the same period.
Travel allowances paid to the MLAs alone
accounted for Rs. 34.03 crore.
RTI activist Chandrashekhar Gaud had
sought this information.
According to the economic survey for
2017-18 financial year, per capita income of the state was Rs. 79,907 while the
average income of legislators was Rs. 14.48 lakh in the same financial year.
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