MLA Salary/Facility : After the results of the assembly elections held in five states, questions have started rising in the minds of many people that how much salary does a Chief Minister and an MLA get? Is available. Apart from salary, what facilities and allowances are they given? If an MP contests the MLA election, how much salary will he get? So let us know how much salary an MLA gets…
According to reports, at present an MLA in the country gets a salary of around Rs 1.50 lakh to Rs 2 lakh including allowances. In this, MLAs get salary according to different states. Apart from salary, MLAs also get many types of allowances and facilities like accommodation, daily allowance, traveling allowance, special facility and priority in traveling by rail and state government bus, vehicle. Allowances, provision of private secretary, medical facilities etc.
How much salary does which MLA get in which state?
- If we discuss about the salary of MLAs, then the MLAs of Telangana get the highest salary. Here, the salary of an MLA is only Rs 20,000, but as election allowance, an MLA here gets about Rs 2,000 per month. Gets Rs 30,000.
- After this comes the MLAs of Madhya Pradesh, whose monthly salary is around Rs 2.10 lakh. In which basic salary is Rs 30 thousand, constituency allowance is Rs 35 thousand and other allowances include medical, computer operator, travel allowance. Due to which the total monthly salary of MLA goes up to Rs 2.10 lakh. The Chief Minister of the state is given around Rs 2 lakh as salary including all the allowances.
- In Chhattisgarh, the basic salary of an MLA is Rs 20 thousand per month, along with this, including constituency allowance, telephone allowance, orderly allowance, daily allowance and medical allowance, he gets a total of Rs 1.10 lakh per month.
- The salary of an MLA in Rajasthan is around Rs 1.25 lakh every month, in which he gets a basic salary of Rs 40 thousand. Apart from this, other allowances also include constituency allowance, daily allowance, telephone allowance, facilities in rail and road transport, medical facilities.
- The total salary of MLAs in Mizoram is Rs 47 thousand per month, while in Tripura the MLAs get a monthly salary of Rs 34 thousand per month.
How much will it affect the salaries of MP-turned-MLA leaders?
- All MPs are given a salary of Rs 1 lakh every month as per the Allowances and Pension (Amendment) Act, 2010. Apart from this, members of Parliament also get many types of allowances and benefits. These MPs are given Rs 70 thousand every month as Constituency Allowance and Rs 60 thousand are given to them for office expenses. A separate allowance of Rs 2,000 is given every day during the Parliament session.
- If an MP becomes an MLA, then according to Section 8A of the Parliamentarian Salary, Allowances and Pension Act, he gets free rail travel, while under the health scheme of the Central Government, former MPs also get the same facilities as the present Parliamentarians. These facilities vary in different states. There is also a difference in the salary of an MP when he becomes an MLA.
