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Comment by sunil kumar on September 8, 2010 at 11:35am

There are severl factors we need to keep in our mind before we oppose their demand of hiking their salary and allocation for development.

1. Our MPs are also human beings like us and apart form their public life they do have their own personal life that require finance for their personal life keep going and keeping in view of constant inflation since last few years their demand is justified.

2. Most of us are salaried employee and we have our monthly budget and hardly we do non budgetary allocation but in case of our representative most of their expenses are non budgetary. If any calamity takes place in their constituency, people expect their representative to extend their support. Do we ever give due consideration about their salary ? We all assume like Anil Kumar Giri that all our representative are filthy rich and involve in corrupt practice and have accumulated tons of money. This is a kind of baseless alligation.


3 We talk about 2 Crore and the misuse of this fund by our representative. I think Neha is contradicting here with her own statement. As you rightly said, what is the worth of a crore today ? If that is true then how much do we expect from our representative to spend from this 2 crore for their constituents ? For a constituency of 10 lacs people ( Average ) it average INR 20 only per person. With this INR 20, what development are we expecting from them ?

I stongly advocate for hiking of their salary ( prefer a commission to do assessment as suggested by Manoj Kumar Singh ) and increase the allocation for development from 2 crore to 20 crore at least but to make them accountable for their spending and impose stiffer punishment over misappropriation.

No need to blame them for their corrupt practice. Instead, vote them out. This is the right time to show your wisdom and show them the door if you are not happy . Do not fall in the trap of caste and creed.

Use your wisdom and vote for a better and prosperous Bihar and honest representative.

Comment by Subodh Kumar on September 4, 2010 at 1:47pm

I thing they must have to provide his job card before salary hike.

Comment by kumari neha on September 1, 2010 at 8:55am

i really love you comment manoj ji... 100% genuine point u made here.. thanks a lot for reading my take here..

Comment by Manoj Kumar Singh on September 1, 2010 at 1:10am

It is a good post. I do want to put my openion here,

1) Before posting you will be knowing that most of the daytoday expenses of the MP's and MLA's are free(or with neglegible charge) Like, residence, Guest entertaind, servent, vehicle, Staff, travel etc. All these are on govt expense. But for a common man, he has to pay from his pocket or salary.
2) I am not opposing the hike, but I am against the process. It is like, I need to hike my salary, I myself is lawmaker, so to show I will sit and rise the salary. Why govt didnot form a committe to make a report and justify the hike. Like they do in case of pay comissions. Let the same process take 2-3 years with so many revisions and reconsiderations. See the efficiency and time management they have shown for their financial benefit with no increase in obligation and duties.

I am a research student at IIT Delhi. Out scholarship is abou to increase up to 24-28 K per month, but it was rerevised 3 times and finally it was fixed at 18-20K per month. Above that a notice was issued and still we are deprived of this enhanced scholarship. I is said that "BHOKHE PET BHAJAN NA HOE". The same thing is with us also. One thing is very clear. If anybody want to retain good brains then must be paid handsomly. So many of my friends are leaving for abroad after PhD. Because Lot of responsibilities come and to fullfill that you need money and opportunity for growth. It is not that we don't want to stay at motherland or we are not patriotic but....
3) above that some of the states have still not implimented the 6th pay comission. The govt servents have just been cheated in the name of 6th pay comission. If we see the actual benefit it is mere hike is salary.
4) Regarding 6th pay comission, one of the biggest blunderplayed by govt is that they just basted the news that in 6th pay comission govt servent salary will increase by 300 to 400 times. But that didnot happened in reality and pay comission implimented after 2.5 years from back date. This gave enough time to black marketers and other industries to hike the prices of essential goods disproportionately. We can see the price of food items for example.

5) I have problem with banking policy also. The idea of banks were to enhance the economic power and security of middle class people, like govt servents, labourers, and small businessman in cottage industries. But banks forget this and their policies becomes the image of corporate world on down the line and so the policy of RBI. Subsiquently we see the effect in the term of inflation. The inflation can be drastically brought down if the interest rates on deposites may be brought to 9-9.5% of small savings. Since inflation is high, the devaluation of money is high, so people are not keeping money in banks and investing in comodities and immovable properties. this leading to the imbalanced demand causing inflation.
6) So now it is needed that the responsibility, accountability of the policymakers, and babus should be strictly defined with punishment for any shortcommings in delivering the duty.

I may be wrong at many places. But what I found I wrote. My intention is not to hurt the feeling of any body rather to express my vews.

regards,

take care,

bye

Comment by Abhishek on August 31, 2010 at 10:35pm

How about a professional study on this? If a diligent study recommends even better salary, no complaints. There are hell lot of commissions institued in this country for any thing under sun. But, come one proposal for MP's compensation and is passed by thumping majority. Certainly intentions call for doubts.
Thanks for the post.

Comment by amit verma on August 31, 2010 at 8:48pm

miss neha , death is enevitable still we fear death and don't want to face it. in the same way what you have mentioned is correct but still should not encourage it as it will lead to disaster. if you think this hike can quench their thirst than there was no need for lalu/shibu shoren/suresh kalmadi/madhu kora .......... to plunder the amount what they have done . they could have been satisfied with few crores.
any how , justification is being given by these people in the court about the loot also.so earnest request , do not follow them

Comment by Mohit on August 31, 2010 at 4:42pm

Nice post...I too like others believed otherwise b4 reading ur post. But one thing i would like to point out here is that u talked of comparing a MP's salary wid that of corporate executives...But dont u think that unlike corporate sector we dont have any performance appraisal system to ensure better service by MP's.And now dont tell that coz its democracy so leave that to public. By appraisal system i mean attendance of an MP's in sessions. His participation level in proceedings and other similar things.

secondly, If MP's can accept a hike y not fine them for failing to perform well.

And lastly... Did u saw the pace at which the bill was passed??? When it comes to their family and ego they know what is quick response, when it's for passing pay commission bills or bills related to police reform,Where is this enthusiasm missing?

These are reason ppl hate when they ask for more money...

And please miss neha...give response to replies.Otherwise it ll be disappointing.