India "Punjab Ex MLAs To Get Pension For Only 1 Term": Bhagwant Mann's New Move
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann yesterday said previous MLAs will presently get annuity for only one term, getting rid of the act of drawing the advantage for each term served by them.
A MLA gets a benefits of around ₹ 75,000 every month for one term. From that point, 66 extra percent of the annuity sum is given for each ensuing term.
In excess of 250 previous MLAs are getting benefits as of now.
"Ex-MLAs in Punjab, regardless of whether they have won two times, multiple times or multiple times, they will currently get benefits for one term just," said Mr Mann in a video message while adding that few MPs are additionally getting annuity for outstanding MLAs prior.
The Chief Minister said cash saved from it will be spent on the government assistance of individuals.
"Our political chiefs, including MLAs, look for votes from you with collapsed hands by saying that allow us an opportunity to serve you," Mr Mann said in his location.
"In any case, you will be amazed to realize that few MLAs who won threefold, multiple times or multiple times and afterward in the wake of losing the decisions or after not getting tickets for challenging the surveys, get lakhs of rupees in benefits each month," he said.
"Someone gets ₹ 3.50 lakh and someone gets ₹ 4.50 lakh and someone gets ₹ 5.25 lakh as benefits. It puts a monetary weight of crores of rupees on the exchequer," Mann said.
A decrease will likewise be made in their family annuities too, Mr Mann expressed.
He said he has given vital bearings to authorities in such manner.
The CM later in a tweet said, "Today, we have taken another critical choice. The benefits equation for Punjab's MLAs will be changed. MLAs will presently be qualified for just a single annuity. Great many crores of rupees which were being spent on MLA annuities will presently be utilized to help individuals of Punjab." A couple of days prior, SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, who is 11-time lawmaker, had said he won't acknowledge benefits as an ex-MLA.
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The nonagenarian had asked the Punjab government and the Vidhan Sabha speaker to redirect his annuity to some friendly work, "ideally to help some penniless young lady understudies in their schooling".
Had Mr Badal chose not to forego the benefits, he would have gotten more than ₹ 5 lakh each month as annuity.
Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira invited the express government's choice. "I invite the choice of one benefits to ex-MLAs taken by @BhagwantMann especially considering the enormous obligation of ₹ 3 Lac Cr on which we're paying a yearly interest of ₹ 30 K. One annuity is advocated as loads of MLAs have basically contributed their lifetime in governmental issues," said Mr Khaira in a tweet.
Congress MLA and previous pastor Pargat Singh too hailed the move.
"I invite the 'one MLA, one benefits' choice of @BhagwantMann Govt. This will decrease the weight on Punjab's funds. As the primary resistance, we will keep on assuming a helpful and dependable part. Punjab starts things out to us," said the Jalandhar Cantt MLA.
Previous Congress MLA Kuldip Vaid blamed AAP for introducing incorrectly realities. "AAP has wrongly proliferated that on the off chance that one becomes MLA for multiple times, he will get five annuities. It isn't right. Just an addition is given. Accordingly, I disagree with Bhagwant Mann's choice of halting the addition. Indeed, rate can be decreased," said the previous MLA from Gill seat in Ludhiana.
"How a MLA who has no business or assets will run his home," he inquired.
Shiromani Akali Dal pioneer and previous pastor Daljit Singh Cheema additionally invited the choice of the AAP government.
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