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No 'vulgar' pays to CEOs: Khurshid to India Inc

Salman Khursheed
New Delhi, Oct 4: Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday, Oct 4 advised India Inc to refrain from doling out "vulgar" salaries to CEOs.

Salman Khurshid said, "I think when we are working on this (austerity), we can hardly say that we (will) shut our eyes on what salary the CEOs are going to take."

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The issue regarding remuneration of company CEOs will be debated by the Parliamentary Standing Committee, which is scrutinising the provisions of the new Companies Bill tabled in the Lok Sabha in Aug 2009, he said."Let's get the opinion of the standing committee (on the Bill), then we will move forward," he said, pointing out that "it's now before the same Parliament that has supported this attitude of austerity ... Let us see what their views are."

"Nothing is to been in isolation. We have to see on what accountability and what responsibility is to be imposed on directors, CEOs of companies. We still haven't taken a final view on whether two persons can be taken as chairpersons and managing directors," the Minister said.

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CEO salary debate: Montek Singh echoes Khurshid

New Delhi, Oct 7: Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia echoed Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's views on the need for austerity when it comes to the salaries of the company heads and CEOs.Pointing out that these are trying times when the governments all over the world have pumped in 1.6 trillion dollars to bail out the global economy from the financial crisis, Montek Singh said, " They have said there should not be indecent salaries and that.....
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Nimbu Pani 05 Oct 2009 12:08 pm
First reduce corruption in the country , The politicians perks should also be cut.then think of reducing the salary.
meet 04 Oct 2009 08:02 pm
before taking the politicians eagle eye on corporate inc..they should keep eye on how much politicians bag unofficially. that could be more helpful for india to keep control on wastage of public;s money & projects..
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