On the day the United Nations Millennium Development Goals was announcing a 27.5% drop in poverty ratio, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was okaying a 200 per cent hike in the emoluments of the titular heads of Indian democracy.
# President’s salary: currently Rs 50,000 per month, raised to Rs 1.5 lakh per month.
# Vice-president’s salary: currently Rs 40,000 per month, raised to Rs 1.25 lakh per month.
# Governor’s salary: currently Rs 36,000 per month, raised to Rs 1.10 lakh per month.
The hikes will take retrospective effect from January 2007.
Ours is not to ask why, but a 200 per cent jump in an era of 13 per cent inflation, without any signficant promise of improvement in “return on investment”?
Deccan Herald reports that the last hike in salaries of the above mentioned worthies came just eight months ago, in January this year. Do even cash-flushed private companies allow their top executives such hikes, so often?
What the hikes show is that governmental austerity is the most bogus thing going around. On the one hand, the Prime Minister does a big bhangra about tightening the belt, limiting foreign trips and all, and on the other hand….
White elephants!
It is unfortunate that the Politicians have been unilaterally hiking their salaries without taking any kind of consent from the ruling masses.
Two square meals a day is not available to large section of the population, however MOON MOON SINGH has decided to reach out for the moon with respect to the pay packets.
It is a sneer at Indian citizen during crisis such as Inflation.
There should be a standard format for salaries for all Govt. employees, this should be a multiple of GDP/PER Capita Income.
Higher the per capita income more the salary, in case of a decrease same will be reflected in their salary.
This is the correct form for performance based salary.
In an ideal world, this is the kind of money the President, Vice President and Governors should be paying the government for the kind of first-rate accommodation they enjoy, for the kind of services they have been provided, and for the stress-free work atmosphere they have… all in our name.
Ji Bharata Mata, Bharata mata ki JAI!
Yaarado duddu Yellammana Jatri…
It is like letting a doper decide the amount of his daily dose…
Is this what you called reasoned debate? This is nothing more than taking pot shots at someone who won’t/can’t respond.
The salaries are rising, because of the Sixth Pay comission. You very well can’t have a babu making more money than the President and Vice President? Can you?
The ignorance around here is outstanding…
As to people who claim Salaries should be based on PCI? Whatever next. Ask Government employees to supplement income with tips? like a waiter in a restaurant. aka Bribes?
To paint the civil service with one brush of cut their salaries is just stupid, and ignores the yeoman service they do across the country.
Stress-free work environment? Hah! I bet that particular poster, thinks stress is getting to work in traffic.
I’m waiting for the armchair internet warriors to go run a district. Oh wait. you couldn’t cut it in the civil service entrance exam. Could you?
No, I don’t work for the Government, and I draw more than the President of India as salary…