NEW DELHI, May 15: A joint committee of the two Houses which looks into the the issue of salary and allowances of MPs was reconstituted on Friday.
The Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament is constituted every year and comprises members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. The chairperson is elected by the members under the provisions of the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954.
According to a Lok Sabha bulletin, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan have nominated members to the panel.
While 14 members have been nominated, there is one vacancy.
The Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament is a statutory standing committee constituted under Section 9 of the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954.
It consists of 15 members, 10 from the Lok Sabha and 5 from the Rajya Sabha, who frame and regulate rules regarding the pay, allowances, housing, medical and other facilities of MPs, for a term “not exceeding” one year. (PTI)
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