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      92 Hours Of Lok Sabha Disruption Cost India Rs 144 Crore

      92 hours of disruption in the Winter Session 2016 of 16th Lok Sabha has cost India Rs 144 crore

      By - IndiaSpend Team |
      Published -  22 Dec 2016 12:05 PM IST
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      Biju Janata Dal member of Parliament (MP) Jay Panda announced that he would forgo part of his November and December salary–he did not mention how much that would be and the amount cannot be calculated now–to atone for the 92 hours lost during the current session of the Lok Sabha (Parliament’s lower house), the least productive among 10 sessions since 2014, official data show.

      Winter session of Parlmt ends after passing the disabilities bill. Phew! As usual, i'll be returning salary proportional to time wasted/lost

      — Baijayant Jay Panda (@PandaJay) December 16, 2016

      “I have been doing this for several years now, I think about four or five years,” Panda said on December 18, 2016. “At the end of every session, I have been returning (part of) my salary and daily allowance in the same proportion as the time that has been lost in the Lok Sabha due to disruptions.”

      Panda’s gesture is a proverbial drop in the ocean.

      The Indian taxpayer paid nearly Rs 177 crore in salaries and other allowances to 545 Lok Sabha MPs during the last financial year (April 2015-March 2016), according to data released to the Lok Sabha. (This is excluding travel and daily allowance in June 2015 since data are unavailable. This also does not include cabinet ministers since they are paid by the respective ministries.)

      That means, a monthly expense of nearly Rs 270,000 on each Lok Sabha MP, including perks on days they attend the Lok Sabha session. MPs get a daily allowance of Rs 2,000 when Parliament is in session.

      This, however, does not include other perks such as free housing, medical care and telecom facilities.

      Each minute of running Parliament during sessions costs the exchequer Rs 250,000, NDTV had reported in September 2012.

      Rs 144 crore: Cost of disruptions during 10th session

      Based on salaries, perks and the cost of running Parliament, about Rs 144 crore (Rs 138 crore on running the houses plus Rs 6 crore as salaries+perks paid) was lost due to disruptions during the 10th session of the current Lok Sabha, IndiaSpend calculations show.

      The opposition parties were protesting the Prime Minister’s announcement on November 8, 2016, that made nearly 86% of India’s currency–by value–invalid. (Click here to read our coverage Currency Chaos)

      Source: Lok Sabha

      MPs are entitled to Rs 50,000 per month as salary, Rs 45,000 as constituency allowance, Rs 15,000 as office expenses and Rs 30,000 for secretarial assistance, according to data available on Lok Sabha. So, this works out to Rs 140,000 per month.

      MPs are also reimbursed for 34 flight trips and unlimited rail and road travel for the year on official business, The Hindu reported in March 2016.

      ‘For God’s sake, do your job!’

      The repeated disruptions and adjournments in the recently-concluded winter session (the tenth session of the 16th Lok Sabha that ran from November 16 to December 16, 2016) also drew a sharp reaction from President Pranab Mukherjee.

      “For God’s sake, do your job!” President Mukherjee told MPs on December 8, 2016. “You are meant to transact business in Parliament. Disruption of Parliament is not acceptable at all.”

      The 16th Lok Sabha, formed after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance came to power in May 2014, has had 10 sessions, with nearly 1,066 working hours (almost 133 days).

      Source: Lok Sabha

      The 10th session also had the least sitting hours–19 hours and 26 minutes–of the current Lok Sabha yet.

      Source: Lok Sabha

      If we include 245 MPs of the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament), the total annual expense on salaries and perks would go up by Rs 78 crore, based on the calculations of spending by Lok Sabha MPs.

      The government has proposed increasing an MP’s monthly salary, from Rs 50,000 to Rs 100,000, constituency allowance from Rs 45,000 to Rs 90,000 and secretarial assistance-plus-office allowance from Rs 45,000 to Rs 90,000, the Indian Express reported on December 25, 2015.

      If the proposal is approved by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the salary and perks of MPs will double to almost Rs 280,000 per month from the current Rs 140,000 per month.

      This article was republished from IndiaSpend.com.

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