MPs salary hike: On Monday (24th March), the central government issued gazette notification to increase the salaries, daily allowances and pensions of MPs and former Parliamentarians by 24%. This hike will come into effect from 1st April 2025.
The notification has been issued by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. It has also announced an increase in the daily allowances pension and additional pension for every year of service exceeding five years for sitting as well as former members.
As per the gazette notification, the sitting MPs will now receive a monthly salary of Rs 1.24 lakh, 24% up from Rs 1 lakh they used to receive earlier. Similarly, the daily allowances will go up from Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,500.
The notification further states that the monthly pension for former MPs has been hiked from Rs 25,000 to Rs 31,000.
The additional monthly pension for every year of service over five years has gone up from Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,500.
The Union government has issued the gazette notification giving revisions to the salaries and pensions in exercise of the powers under the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act basing it on the Cost Inflation Index specified in the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Incidentally, the development comes days after the Congress government in Karnataka approved 100% salary hike for CM, Ministers and MLAs.
The Karnataka Chief Minister’s monthly salary has doubled from ₹75,000 to ₹1.5 lakh, while ministers’ salaries saw a 108% hike from ₹60,000 to ₹1.25 lakh, as per the Karnataka Ministers’ Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill.
Strikingly, the Congress government passed the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowance (Amendment) Bill as well as the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances (Amendment) Bill, 2025 without any discussion. It passed these legislations amid chaos as the leading opposition party, BJP, protested against the 4% reservation for Muslims in public contracts.
