(Vide Para 12.5)
STATEMENT SHOWING THE SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND OTHER
FACILITIES ADMISSIBLE TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
S.No. & ITEM ADMISSIBILITY
1. Salary Rs.12,000/-
per month.
2. Daily
Rs.500/-
the MPs have to sign the register
Allowances except
on holidays.
3. Other Constituency
Allowance @ Rs.10,000/- per month and
Allowances Office
Expense Allowance @ Rs.14,000/- per month, out of which Rs.3,000/- should be for expenses on stationery
etc., Rs.1,000/- p.m. for franking letters and Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha
Secretariat may pay upto Rs.10,000/- per month to the person(s) engaged by the
MP for obtaining secretarial assistance.
4. Telephone 1,00,000
free local calls per annum on both the telephones – Delhi and Constituency
residence pooled together. Trunk
call bills adjusted within the monetary equivalent of the ceiling of 1,00,000
local calls per annum.
Excess calls made over and above the quota allowed to be adjusted in the
next years' quota. A third
telephone with additional 50,000 free local calls in a year for internet
connectivity purpose at Delhi or constituency residence is also provided. Members whose constituencies are 1000
km. away from Delhi have been allowed 20,000 additional free local calls.
Members
have also been provided Mobile phone with the provision that the calls made
from it will be adjusted against 1,00,000 free local calls already available to
them.
5. Housing Rent
free flats only ( including hostel accommodation). If a Member is allotted bungalow at his request, he shall
pay full normal rent if he is entitled to such accommodation.
Rent
free furniture upto the monetary ceiling of Rs.24,000/- for durable furniture
and Rs.6,000/- for non-durable furniture.
Free
Washing of sofa covers and curtains every 3 months.
Tiles
in bathroom, kitchen wherever demanded by MP.
6. Water and 50,000
units of electricity per annum 25000 units each on
Electricity Light/Power
meters or pooled together Members who have no power meters installed are
allowed 50000 units per annum on light meter and 4,000 kl. of water per annum
beginning January every year.
7. Medical As
available to Grade-I Officers of the Central Government Under CGHS.
8. Conveyance
Advance Rs.1,00,000/-
on Interest @ as applicable to the Central Government Employees recoverable
within a maximum period of 5 years not extending beyond the tenure of MP.
9. Pension to
Ex-MP (I)
Minimum pension of Rs.3,000/- per month for membership of 4 years and Rs.600/-
per month for every year in excess of five without any maximum ceiling.
(ii)
Pension to Members with two terms of Lok Sabha and to all the Members of
Provisional Parliament (Constituent Assembly). Minimum Rs.3,000/- per month.
(iii)
(a) In case where the elections are not held due to unforseen circumstances
like weather conditions etc., such as in Ladakh in J&K and Mandi in
Himachal Pradesh, such period should be counted towards their eligibility
period for grant of pension.
(b)
where in any General Elections held for the purpose of constituting of a new
Lok Sabha, poll were delayed in any Parliamentary Constituency or any part
thereof on account of terrorism, insurgency or public order problem, the
delayed period will count for pension purpose at the rate admissible under the
law for the time being in force and from the date on which the dissolution of
such House took place.
(iv)Ex-MPs Pension allowed
irrespective of any other pension without any upper limit on the aggregate.
10.
Pension to the Rs.1,000/-
per month for a period of 5 years from the date
spouse/ dependent of
death of MP, to the spouse, if any, or dependent.
of an MP dying
in harness
11. Travelling Rail One 1st Class + One 2nd class fare.
Allowances
Air One
and one-fourth air fare. Also air
fare for one companion in case of a blind/physically incapacitated MP.
Steamer One and 3/5th of the
fare for highest Class
(without diet).
Road (I) Rs.8/- per km. (ii) Minimum Rs.120/- to/fro from Delhi airport and
residence at Delhi. (iii) TA by
rail or by road during session/Committee meetings for to and fro journeys
between usual place of residence/place of duty to the nearest airport when the
places are not connected by mail/express and superfast trains (iv) TA for air
journey(s) during the short interval between two sittings of a Departmental
related Standing Committee during budget Session recess, limited to one air
fare + DA for the days of absence (v) Also admissible to spouse of member for 8
single journeys allowed in a year.
12.
Travelling (i)
Railway pass for MP for travel in AC-I
Class or
Facility Executive Class of any Indian Railway. Spouse can also travel with MP in the same Class. If such journey or part thereof is undertaken by air from place other than usual place of residence of the Member to Delhi and back, to an amount of equal to the fare by air for such journey or part thereof or the amount equal to the journey performed by air from usual place of residence of the Member to Delhi and back whichever is less. (ii) Companion can also travel with MP in AC II tier. (iii) Member having no spouse can take one person with him in AC-I/Executive Class in addition to the companion allowed in AC-II tier. (iv) To and fro air travel for the MP from Ladakh – for Member and Spouse/companion. (v) To and fro air travel facility for Member and spouse/companion between the Island and the main land. (vi) Blind or physically incapacitated Member can take an attendant in the air/rail journey in which he himself travels in lieu of the companion in AC-II tier. (vii) Thirty two single air journeys in a year from any place to another place in India either alone or along with spouse or any number of companions or relatives within this ceiling. (viii) Steamer passes for highest class of steamer for MPs and spouse/companion (without diet). (ix) To and fro air travel when the usual place of residence is inaccessible by rail, road or steamer, between the nearest place in his constituency where there is air service and the nearest place having rail service.
13. Travelling Ex-MPs alongwith a companion are entitled to free AC-II facility to tier rail travel facility from
one place to any other place in Ex-MPs India, on the basis of an authorisation issued for this
purpose by either Secretariat of Parliament as the case may be.
14. Facilities to With effect from 26.4.1999 the Members of prematurely dissolved Lok Sabha are allowed to
Members of utilize the balance of unutilized free 1,00,000 telephone calls, 25,000 units of electricity and 2,000
prematurely kl.
of water during the period from dissolution of the Lok Sabha till constitution
of the new Lok
dissolved Sabha. In case of excess consumption of such
units, the same will be allowed to be adjusted in
Lok Sabha case
the member is elected to the new Lok Sabha against the quota that will be
available to him.
15. Travelling The
spouse of a member has been allowed free to and from rail/air journeys once
during each
facility to session of Parliament and twice during the Budget Session with the maximum limit of 8 such
the spouse single
journeys in a year.
of the Member