3-fold salary hike plan for President, Vice-Prez

New Delhi, October 25

The salary of the President and the Vice-President may go up three times as the Union Home Ministry has prepared a proposal for raising emoluments of the country’s top two functionaries.

The move comes following the implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations that has created an anomalous situation in which the salary of the President is Rs 1 lakh less than that of the country’s top-most bureaucrat, the Cabinet Secretary. 

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The proposal is expected to be placed before the Union Cabinet for approval soon.

At present, the President gets Rs 1.5 lakh per month, the Vice-President Rs 1.25 lakh and the Governor of a state Rs 1.1 lakh. As per the latest proposal, the President’s salary may go up to Rs 5 lakh and the Vice-President’s up to Rs 3.5 lakh.

After the implementation of the Pay Commission’s awards, the Cabinet Secretary, the top-most bureaucrat in the country, gets Rs 2.5 lakh per month and a Secretary in the Union Government gets Rs 2.25 lakh per month.

After the Cabinet nod, the Bills will be tabled in Parliament, possibly in the coming winter session.

The salaries of the President, Vice-President and Governors were last hiked in 2008 when Parliament approved a three-fold increase. — PTI