Salary hike for parliamentarians?
Our Parliamentarians are demanding their pay-hike allegedly because it should be at least one rupee more than that of Union Cabinet Secretary because of protocol. System should be to give a complete package of monthly salary by merging all types of freebies like travel-fares (air, rail or bus), telephone-calls, and each and every types of perks, privilege and facilities and even daily allowances in the monthly package so that real picture of burdening for our ?poor? MPs on exchequers may be highlighted before public. Such merger will reveal that they are already getting much more than salary of Union Cabinet secretary even at present. Instead of paying daily allowances extra, provision should be of salary-cut for their not attending Parliament sessions. Parliamentarians should be allowed only such medical and other facilities at government-hospitals which are available to members of general public ordinarily according to incomes. Our Parliamentarians give examples of other countries while demanding pay-hike. They should also compulsorily follow system of those countries by putting data of income and wealth on websites to make public aware at least about their know sources of income.
Role of Parliamentarian is to serve public and, it is in no case government-service. As such, it is absolutely senseless to give them pensions. Our Parliamentarians should have capability to get things done through normal public-channels rather than getting a short cut through expansive and corruption-generating MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme, which should be scrapped as per advice of the then Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chaterjee and also of Planning Commission.
