 bill no " of lint  -  - the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) bill, 1979 a billfurther to amend the salary, allowances and pension of members oj parliame,nt act, 19m bil it enacted by parliament in the thirtieth year of the republic of india as follows:-1 this act may be called the salary, allowances and pension of short members of parliament (amendment) act, 1979 title 5 z in the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament 30 of 1964 act, 1954, after section se, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-insertion of new section 60 "6d a member who is blind or who is, in the ofloion of the chairman of the council of states or, as the case may be, the speaker of special facility to blind and physically incapacitated members 10 the house of the people, so incapadtatecl physically as to require the facility of an attendant shall, with respect to each such journey by air as is referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 4 or c\ause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 5 or section 8c which he performs along with an attendant, be entitled (in addition to the ado-is wances which he is entitled under section" or section 5 oj', as the case may be, section 6c) to an amount equal to one fare by air for such journey l' statement of objects and reasons in pursuance of a recommendation of the joint committee on salaries and allowances of members of parliament, it is proposed to amend the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act, 1954 in order to allow a blind member the faculty of an attendant while performing journeys by air and also ttl extend the same facility to a memher who is so incapacitated physically as to require the assistance of an attendant ", 2 the bill seeks to give effect to the above objects , ravindra varma new delhi; tm 19th march, 1979 clause 2 of the bill provides for the payment to a blind or physically incapacitated member of parliament an amount equal to one fare by air for each journey performed by him along with an attendant by air in addition to the allowances to which he is otherwise entitled under the act expencuture towaro the payments referred to above cannot be estimated precisely however, the e:lt'penditure may, approximately be fifty thousand rupees per annum there will be no non-recurrini expenditure  a billfurther to amend the salary, allowance:s and pension of members of parliament act, 1954   (shri ravindra varm8t minister 01 parliamenta17i affairs and labour) 