You are asking me to share my comments but I am thinking why this article didn't come up 10 yrs ago so that I would have seriously decided about being an MP. MP as a career is really good.
Your article is simply not correct. MP does not get this money . It is only reimbursement. Most of them can not be misused.
MBA graduate is infact getting more. The real difference is that he is paying IT where as MP may not be paying that much.
Hence President of INDIA should therefore put IT strictly compulsory inrespect of the party he belongs. It shall be impartial whether somebody belongs to ruling or opposition.
Let the author clearly explains what this MBA is doing for so much money he earns. In India Engineers and doctors who are really contributing earns much less compared to uncontributing MBA.
If the folk who cannot get into IITs & IIMs come to Harvard, Yale etc., should those who cannot get into Parliament come to the Senate, House of Representatives or should they go the State Legistlatures?
the article is bad in taste. Especially comparing the MPLAD funds and taking the CAG comments as support. CAG comments are not specific. So clubbing it with an MP's perks isn't correct. You could have also indicated how much funds and average MBA handles and added to his perks.
Further if the MP's salary has been changed 29 times since 1954 so what? Does any have a statistics as to how many times an average managers salary has changed since 1954? Letrs be realistic . there is nothing wrong in the MP's getting these perks. Many are not in cash and are used in the course of public service.
By any chance has the cost of office space and telephone alongwith staff and other paraphenalia being used by the AVERAGE MBA in the course of business been included in his perks too?
MPs are nothing less than mid day robbers. No wonder these unemployable scoundrels scamper for a ticket, by hook or crook. They should be taxed for their perks like everybody else. God save this nation of these dacoits.
Dear Friends, I am astonished the way this article is written.It is half-hearted article.Look at the contribution of an MBA to this country and that of MP! Many of you will say that it does not take anything to become MP, comeon then go for it, elections are around and you can try your luck! Every year there are 1.5 Lac students who have the aspiration to go for IIMs, and how many are there who really have the guts to go for Politics? It is very easy to say that these people enjoy these perks but in a calamity they are the ones who help us out! In a country like India there are a few people who can lead, forget about the IIM students. I request you to kindly write some reasonable, well-thought article.
I have no intention of becoming an MP but that I think they are worth what they get ( Atleast we should see to it that only those who are worth get it ). When I saw the "Do you have it in you" campaign of the Army , It was heartening that the Army is really looking for good people. Only good people can make an institution good. And I think that politics is one field where good people are needed the most. Today we have to make politics so attractive that, the educated ( and hence broadminded ), bright & intelligent youth take to politics as a first preference and not join MNCs and work for the profits of someone else. It should not be that only those worthless people who cannot get gainfully employed elsewhere resort to politics.
I think for the top 543 of our country Rs 12000pm is paltry. If we can afford it , we must surely try increasing this figure and also the allowances.
Why the brouhaha about MPs getting more? Corruption is a separate issue, and let us keep it aside from this discussion.
Why should'nt an MP travel business class? Should he travel in trains rubbing shoulders with common citizens? Does a business manager ever travel by train? Does'nt he make business trips/get paid holidays abroad?
In an increasingly materialistic world, would a poor, idealistic Neta command the respect of people?
Come on now, surely you can't sreiously offer 12000 per month to an MP and attract him.
