Committee for increase in salary and allowances of MLAs

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 16:12 [IST]

Bhopal, Mar 16 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Speaker Ishwardas Rohani today announced in the Assembly constitution of an eight-member committee for increase of salary and allowances of MLAs.

The committee will be headed by Vidhan Sabha Deputy Speaker Hazarilal Raghuvanshi, while Vidhan Sabha Secretary A K Pyasi will be the secretary of the committee.

Other members will include Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narottam Mishra, Ms Sudha Jain, Mr Lal Singh Arya, Mr Gyan Singh, Dr Govind Singh and Mr K K Singh.

The committee will submit its report to the Speaker.

Leader of Opposition Jamuna Devi said a committee was earlier constituted for increasing the honorarium retired people's representatives but the report had not been received so far.

UNI

Topics: ASSEMBLY-MP-COMMITTEE

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