ISLAMABAD (Ansar Abbasi) Some parliamentarians have submitted a draft law of the Senate, Deputy Chairman, Speaker National Assembly, Deputy Speaker to 400% while all members of the National Assembly and Senators have a 100% increase in salaries. , As well as a review request to increase the travel allowance of all MPs and their families.news world ahmed
The huge increase in salaries has been called in view of the recent wave of inflation and the decline in the value of rupees. The draft law states that inflation has affected not only the general public but also the chairman, speaker, deputy chairman, deputy speaker and parliament. All members have also been affected.
The Senate Secretariat has sent the draft law to Parliamentary Affairs and Finance Ministry to find out the opinion. The law recommends amending the Chairman and Speaker (Sales, Allowances, and Practices) Act 1975 so that the current salary of the Chairman Senate and Speaker of the National Assembly should be increased from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 8 lakh 70 per thousand.
This amount is equal to the basic salary of a Supreme Court judge. The bill also recommended amendments to the Deputy Chairman and Deputy Speaker (Sales, Allowances and Prolegies) Act 1975, so that the current salary of the Deputy Chairman Senate and Deputy Speaker National Assembly increased from Rs. Thousands of rupees can be made, which is equal to the basic salary of a judge of the Islamabad High Court.
The draft law recommends amending the Members' Parliament (Celery and Allowances) Act 1974 to increase the current salary of the members of the Senate and the National Assembly from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh.
The law also recommends amending the law to provide 20 per cent open class airline tickets to businessmen from the airport to Islamabad near their constituency.
The bill states that children and spouses of up to 18 years of the senator / parliament will be allowed to use this ticket in the country. The bill also states that if a session or committee meeting or as a Member of Parliament come from your city for any official function and then to return (from the city in which the meeting is being held), If traveling by train, the equivalent of air conditioning class fare (ii) regardless of whether the PIA business class operates on the said route;
The equivalent of a business class air ticket; provided the PIA will offer the original rate or potential business class fare for up to the National Assembly and Senate Secretariat; if PIA does not provide business class travel support from the aforementioned city, 2 مس The equivalent of an economy ticket will be paid.
(III) If traveling by road, in this case allowance will be given at the rate of 25% per km. The bill also includes a clause that a travel allowance between the two cities will be available only if the least and viable route between the two cities is adopted.
It further states that if a member comes from a city to attend the meeting which is not generally a city of his residence, then he will be given a travel allowance.
Senator Naseebullah Bazai, Sajjad Hussain Turi, Sardar Mohammad Yaqub Khan Nasr, Dilawar Khan, Dr. Ashok Kumar and Shamim Afridi in a letter titled "Immediate" written by the Senate Secretariat to Parliamentary Affairs January 28 The bill is set to appear in the notice. For the purpose of presenting the bill, no significant increase in salaries has been made so far.
As a result, the chairman or speaker, deputy chairman or deputy speaker and the Assembly and the Senate are not in a position to meet their daily expenses.
"It is also a fact that due to inflation and the depreciation of the rupee, the Chairman and Speaker, Deputy Chairman and Deputy Speaker and Members of Parliament have also been affected by the general public," the statement said.
