Salary hike
I refer to the article entitled 'Salary Hike for the High-ups' published in the editorial page of your daily of March 10, 2010. While I agree in principle with Mr Latif Mondol about the unjustified hike in salaries and privileges of persons holding public offices, I differ with his comment that a large number of the current MPs are otherwise very rich. MPs are not supposed to receive salaries like public servants. They can at best claim some compensation for the time they devote to betterment of their respective constituencies. I know about some of the MPs who did not have legal earnings of more than Taka 10,000.00 a month before they became MPs. Compensation amounting to approximately Taka 100,000.00 a month including proposed salary, benefits of housing, transport, telephone, attendance of sessions, medical, insurance, travelling etc cannot be justified. Nobody will be able to monitor how much of the discretionary allowance of Taka 300,000.00 will be spent for the constituents.
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