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Legislator’s salary
The well-researched short piece on MPs’ salaries (The Hindu, Parliament, August 11), hopefully, will open a healthy debate on the whole issue of wages and income across sectors and hierarchies in government and private sector in India. The highest paid Indian ‘employee’ who together with his spouse took home a gross annual salary of over Rs 100 crore for several consecutive years was from a small company in South India.
The RBI governor’s annual salary is a small percentage of the gross emoluments of the CEOs of some of the private sector banks. While in government, public sector and some of the private sector organisations there are transparent norms for deciding wages and career progression, these are conspicuous by their absence for majority of the wage-earners in India.
Comparisons with experiences abroad made in the article may not lead us anywhere. It is a fact that, if we factor in the ‘costs’ for becoming a member of parliament, the salary for the uncertain term during which one will remain as an MP is too low by any standard. Thus, the issue reduces to one of ‘who should be deciding MPs’ salaries?.
GOI may consider setting up a permanent body with required statutory authority to monitor the relationship between the nature of jobs and remuneration paid in Government, public sector and in private sector and make recommendations on broad bands of wages payable for different categories of jobs.
M G Warrier, Mumbai
Meanwhile, like someone said above, the interest rates have fallen dramatically. Senior citizens who never worked for the govt & have no pensions as a result but rely on fixed deposits have been affected by the lowering of the interest rates. They also had many costs in their life you know and pretty uncertain outcomes at the end.
And set up another body? Who will pay its members? Who will determine their salaries? Talk about making a government fatter.