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This could well be leading you to a case of a massive cardiac arrest or blow the bulbs out of your mind but here is an estimate of the kind of packages our politicians are enjoying at the expense of the hard earned money that we earn and simply give it away in the form of tax. This also looks at some crucial angles of how the rulers of the nation are eating away our flesh and blood and what they give us in return.
According to the latest data, the figures that we give you are the expenses on the politicians along with the perks and benefits they enjoy and mind you, we are not taking in the amount of bribes they take to do what is expected of them as a public servant and that is a part of their duty. We are not talking about the umpteen numbers of MLAs but just the members of parliament (MP).
While the Monthly Salary is Rs 12,000, the Expense for Constitution per month is Rs 10,000, the Office expenditure per month is Rs 14,000. Their traveling concession is Rs. 8 per km and up to Rs 48,000, so for a visit from Kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km.
The Daily DA TA during parliament meets is Rs 500/day and charge for 1 class (A/C) in train is free for any number of times all over India. The charge for Business Class in flights is Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.).
The rent for MP hostel at Delhi is free and the Electricity costs at home is Free up to 50,000 units, the local phone call charge is free up to 1 ,70,000 calls. Therefore, the total expense for a MP [most of them having no minimum qualification] per year is Rs 32,00,000 [i.e . 2.66 lakh/month] which means that total expense for 5 years is Rs 1,60,00,000.
We have a total of 534 MPs and the expense for 5 years is Rs 8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 crores)
The above numbers give you an idea of the contribution we are making and the responsibility of those people who are ruling us and what is expected of them. Sadly but truly, ours is boastfully the biggest democracy in the world and if only the members that come and go put a hand on their heart and look at it with conscience they would know the kind of suffering their lifestyle is causing to the billion people in India leave alone any benefits or service they are doing.
