APPENDIX-XVI

(Para 12.4)

STATEMENT SHOWING THE SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND OTHER FACILITIES ADMISSIBLE TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

 

 

1.           Salary                                 Rs. 12,000/- per month

 

2.           Daily allowances                 Rs. 500/-. The MPs have to sign the register except on    holidays.

 

3.          Other Allowances                 Constituency Allowances @ Rs. 10,000/- per month and Office Expense Allowances @ Rs. 14,000/- per month, out of which Rs. 3’000/- should be for expenses on stationery items etc., Rs. 1,000/- p.m. for franking of letters and Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha Secretariats may pay upto Rs. 10,000/- per month to the person(s) engaged by the MP for obtaining secretarial assistance.

 

4.          Telephone                             1,50,000 free calls per annum on all the three telephones at Delhi, constituency residence and for Internet connectivity purposes, pooled together.  Trunk call bills adjusted within the monetary ceiling of 1,50,000 local calls per annum. Excess calls made over and above the quota allowed to be adjusted in the next year's quota.  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 1,50,000 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 monitory ceiling of             Rs. 24,000/- for durable furniture and Rs.6,000/- for non-durable furniture.

 

Free washing of sofa covers and curtains every three months.

 

Tiles in bathroom, kitchen wherever demanded by MP.

 

6.      Water & Electricity                   50,000 units of electricity per annum, 25,000 units each on Light/Power meters or pooled together. Members who have no power meters installed are allowed 50,000 units per annum on light meter and 4,000 kilo-letres 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 five years not extending beyond the tenure of MP.

 

9.        Pension to Ex-MP                    (i) Minimum pension of Rs. 3,000/- per month to every person who has served for any period, as Member of Provisional Parliament or either House of Parliament and Rs. 600/- per month for every year of membership of Parliament in excess of five years without any maximum ceiling.

 

(ii) Ex-MPs pension allowed irrespective of any other pension without any upper limit on the aggregate.

 

(iii) A period of nine months or more is reckoned equivalent to complete one year for the purpose of payment of additional pension.

 

10.     Pension to the spouse/             Rs. 1,500/- per month for a period of 5 years dependent of  MP                   from the death of MP, to the spouse, if any, or

dying in harness                      dependent.  

 

11.      Travelling Allowances             Rail   One 1^st Class + One IInd Class fare

 

Air One and one-fourth air fare in any airline. Also air fare for one companion in case of a blind/physically incapacitated MP

 

            Steamer One and 3/5^th of the fare for the highest Class    (without diet)

 

Road (i) Rs. 8/- per km.  (ii) Minimum 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 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 Department related standing committee during budget session recess, limited to one air fare + DA for the days of absence. (v) Spouse of member also entitled to  eight single  journeys in a year.

(vi). Members residing within 300 km distance from Delhi may travel by road and claim road mileage @     Rs. 8 per km. (vii) Members from North-Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura may travel by road from their residence in the constituency/state to the nearest airport.

12            Travelling facility                             (i) Railway pass for MP for travelling in AC-Ist Class or 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, an MP is entitled to an amount 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 self and spouse/companion. (v) To and fro air travel facility for the Member and spouse/companion between the Island and the mainland. (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 companion or relatives within this ceiling. (viii) Spouse or companion of a Member may travel alone to join the Member 8 times in a year against 32 air journeys available to the Member in a year. (ix) Steamer passes for highest class of steamer   for MPs and spouse/ companion (without diet). (x) 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 facility to Ex- MPs                 (i) Ex-MPs alongwith a companion are entitled to free AC-II tier rail travel facility from one place to any other place in India, on the basis of an authorization issued for this purpose by concerned Secretariat of Parliament as the case may be.

 

(ii) Entitled to travel alone in any train by any railway  by AC I Class in lieu of two AC-II tier journeys.

 

14.        Facilities to Members of                                      With effect from 26.04.1999, the Members of

Prematurely dissolved Lok Sabha         prematurely dissolved Lok Sabha are allowed to utilize the balance of unutilized free 1,50,000 telephone calls, 50,000 units of electricity  and 4,000 kls. of water during the period from dissolution of the Lok Sabha till  constitution  of the new Lok Sabha . In case of excess consumption of such units, the same will be allowed to be adjusted in case  the member is elected to the new Lok Sabha against the quota that will be available to him.

 

15.        Travelling facility to the spouse of           The Spouse of a member has been allowed

              Member                                                to and fro rail/air journeys once during each session    of Parliament and twice during the Budget Session with the maximum limit of 8 such single journeys in a year.  

16.       Miscellaneous                                         Newly elected /nominated Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha reaching Delhi prior to publication of notification by Election Commission will be entitled to TA and Transit accommodation