Good news for the MLA’s and MLC’s of Telangana State. CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao is planning to pay hike for the MLA’s and MLC’s. It seems that the Telangana government has taken a leaf from the AAP government book regarding the issue of salary hike. According to media reports, it is now seriously examining the issue of increasing the salaries of MLAs and MLCs in view of their “grossly inadequate” pay structure.

Several MLAs and MLCs have submitted representations in this regard to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and also Legislature Secretary in recent times. The issue was discussed on Tuesday at a meeting held by the Chief Minister, it said. Telangana Deputy CM Mehmood Ali said, “Every MLA has a big constituency to look after and expenses are huge. This has been a long-standing demand and we are considering it.

The government is looking at a reasonable salary hike for legislators.” Observing that MLAs and MLCs have to meet a lot of “political and non-political expenses” every month, it said the present salary structure is “grossly inadequate” to meet the actual expenses. The Telangana legislators now get Rs 95,000 per month and their salary bill coupled with those having Cabinet rank, would be to the tune of Rs 14.94 crore per annum, it said.

There is an estimate that about Rs 3 lakh is spent every month by the MLAs and MLCs to meet expenses, including paying for meals of their staff, providing financial assistance to different persons and also to attend various programs in the constituency.