to be  introduced in lok sabhaas  introduced in lok sabha bill no 73 of 2006 the  salary,  allowances  and  pension  of  members  of parliament  (amendment)  bill,  2006 a billfurther to amend the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act, 1954be it enacted by parliament in the fifty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1 (1) this act may be called the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2006(2) save as otherwise provided, it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this actamendment of section 32 in section 3 of the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act,1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal act), —30 of 1954(a) for the words, "at the rate of four thousand rupees per mensem", the words"at the rate of sixteen thousand rupees per mensem" shall be substituted;(b) for the words "at the rate of four hundred rupees for each day", the words"at the rate of one thousand rupees for each day" shall be substituted;(c) for the second and third provisos, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely: —"provided that the rates of salary and allowance specified in this section shall be applicable for a period of five years from the 14th day of september, 2006 or until it is refixed, whichever is later"3 in section 4 of the principal act, in sub-section (1), —amendment of section 4(a) in clause (c), in sub-clause (ii), for the words "at the rate of eight rupees per kilometre", the words "at the rate of thirteen rupees per kilometre" shall be substituted;(b) after the second proviso, and before the explanation, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely: —"provided also that the rate specified in sub-clause (ii) of clause (c) of this sub-section shall be applicable for a period of five years from the date of commencement of the salary, allowances and pension of member of parliament (amendment) act, 2006"; (c) in sub-section (2), after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:—"provided also that the first proviso shall not be applicable to a member who, in the opinion of the chairman of the council of states or, as the case may be, the speaker of the house of the people, is so incapacitated physically and cannot travel by air or train"4 in section 5 of the principal act,—amendment of section 5(a) in sub-section (1a), for the words "seven days", the words "five days" shall be substituted;(b) in sub-section (2),—(i) for the first proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:—"provided that the total number of such journeys under this sub-section shall be thirty-four journeys per year;";(ii) in the second proviso, for the words "less than thirty-two", the words"less than thirty-four" shall be substituted;(iii) in the third proviso, for the words "thirty-two journeys", the words"thirty-four journeys" shall be substituted;(iv) after the third proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:–"provided also that in case any member avails a total number of journeys by air more than thirty-four such journeys permissible to him in the year, he may be allowed to adjust not exceeding eight such journeys from the entitled number of journeys which may accrue in his credit in the next following year";(c) after sub-section (2) and before explanation i, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:— "(3) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), there shall be paid to a member who, in the opinion of the chairman of the council of states or, as the case may be, the speaker of the house of the people, is so incapacitated physically and therefore cannot perform air or train journey, road mileage for the entire road journey"; (d) in explanation  iii, for the words "thirty-two journeys", the words "thirtyfour journeys" shall be substitutedamendment of section 6d5 in section 6d of the principal act, after clause (ii), the following clause shall be added and shall be deemed to have been added with effect from the 17th day of may, 2004, namely:— "(iii) by road as is referred to in section 4 or section 5, be entitled  to an amount equal to one road mileage"amendment of section 76 in section 7 of the principal act, for the words "seven days", the words "five days"shall be substituted7 in section 8a of the principal act,—amendment of section 8a(a) for sub-section (1) and the proviso thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—"(1) with effect from the commencement of the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2006, there shall be paid a pension of six thousand rupees per mensem to every person who has served for any period as a member of the provisional parliament or either house of parliament:provided that where a person has served as a member of the provisional parliament or either house of parliament for a period exceeding five years, there shall be paid to him an additional pension of eight hundred rupees per mensem for every year served in excess of five years;";(b) sub-section (1a) and the explanation thereunder shall be omittedamendment of section 8aa8 section 8aa of the principal act shall be numbered as sub-section (1) thereof and after sub-section (1) as so numbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: —"(2) every person who is not a sitting member but has served for any period as a member from the andaman and nicobar islands or the lakshadweep, he shall be entitled to travel by the highest class of accommodation in any steamer sailing between the andaman and nicobar islands or, as the case may be, the lakshadweep and the main land territory of india in addition to the facilities available to such member under sub-section (1), without payment of any charges on the basis of an authorisation issued for this purpose by the secretariat of either house of parliament"insertion of new section 8ac9 after section 8ab of the principal act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—family pension'8ac (1) on the death of a member of either house of parliament during his term of office, his spouse, if any, or dependent of such member shall be paid during the remaining period of life of such spouse or, as the case may be, such dependent so long as such dependent continues to be a dependent within the meaning of clause (aa) of section 2, family pension equivalent to one-half of the pension which such member of parliament would have received had he retired:provided that no such family pension shall be payable to a dependent if such dependent is a sitting member of parliament or is drawing pension under section 8a(2) the family pension payable under sub-section (1) shall also be payable to the spouse or dependent of a person who was a member of either house of parliament or the provisional parliament at any time before the commencement of the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2006 and died after serving as such member:provided that such spouse or dependent is not drawing any pension under this act or is not entitled to draw family pension under the proviso to sub-section (1):provided further that no person shall be entitled to claim arrears of any family pension under this sub-section in respect of a period before the commencement of the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2006explanation— for the purposes of this section, "provisional parliament" shall include the body which functioned as the constituent assembly of the dominion of india immediately before the commencement of the constitution' statement of objects and reasonsthe joint committee on salaries and allowances of members of parliament in its report dated the 22nd may, 2006 has made certain recommendations regarding increase in the salary, daily allowance and the other facilities to which the members of parliament are entitled to, pension payable to former members of parliament and family pension to the spouse or dependent of the members of parliament and former members of parliament after the demise of such members of parliament / former members of parliament  after considering the said report, it has been decided to enhance the salary, daily allowance, rate of road mileage and other facilities to which the members of parliament are entitled to and pension to former members of parliament and the family pension to the spouse or dependent of members of parliament and former members of parliament after the demise of such members of parliament/ former members of parliament  it is, therefore, proposed to amend the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act, 1954 for giving effect to the aforesaid proposals2 the bill, inter  alia, seeks to provide for the following, namely:—(i) to enhance the salary of members of parliament from  twelve thousand rupees per mensem to sixteen thousand rupees per mensem for a period of five years from 14th september, 2006;(ii) to enhance the  allowance payable to the members of parliament during any period of residence on duty  from five hundred rupees for each day of duty to one thousand rupees for each day of duty for a period of five years from 14th september 2006;(iii) to enhance the rate of road mileage in respect of every journey performed in india for the purpose of attending session of a house of parliament or a meeting of a parliamentary committee or for the purpose of attending to any other business connected with his duties as a member of parliament  from eight rupees per kilometre to thirteen rupees per kilometre for a period of five years from the enactment of the proposed legislation;(iv) to allow a physically incapacitated member of parliament who cannot travel by air and rail to travel by road;(v) to reduce the interval between the adjournment of a house of parliament or, one sitting of a parliamentary committee and the reassembly of that house  or the next sitting of the committee at the same place, as the case may be, from seven days to five days;(vi) to enhance thirty-two single air journeys  to which a member of parliament is entitled to avail  in a year   to thirty-four single air journeys in  a year;(vii) to allow the ex-members of parliament from the andaman and nicobar islands or the lakshadweep  to travel by highest class of accommodation in any steamer sailing between the andaman nicobar islands or lakshadweep, as the case may be, and the main land territory of india without payment of any charges, on the basis of an authorisation issued for the purpose by the concerned secretariat of parliament;(viii) to enhance the pension of three thousand rupees per mensem available to a former member of parliament   to six thousand rupees per mensem and the additional pension of six hundred rupees per mensem payable to them for every year in excess of five years membership  to eight hundred rupees per mensem;(ix) to increase the  family pension payable to the spouse or dependent of a member of parliament dying during his term of office  from one thousand five hundred rupees per mensem to three thousand rupees per mensem for life as against only for a period of five years only as at present;(x) to provide the spouse or dependent of a deceased former members of parliament a family pension of three thousand rupees per mensem for life  of such spouse or dependent till he  remains as such without any claim  for the  arrears prior to the commencement of the proposed legislation3    the bill seeks to achieve the above objectsnew delhi;priyaranjan dasmunsithe 21st  august, 2006 financial memorandumclauses 2 to 9 of the bill seek to amend sections 3, 4, 5, 6d, 7, 8a and 8aa and insertion of new section 8ac respectively in the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act, 1954 and these have financial implications2 the proposed provisions for increasing the salary, daily allowance, rate of road mileage, reducing the interval between the adjournment of a house of parliament or one sitting of a parliamentary committee and reassembly of that house or the next sitting of the committee at the same place, increasing the free air journeys, allowing an incapacitated member who cannot travel by air and rail, to travel by road, increasing the minimum and additional pension, allowing the former members from andaman and nicobar islands or lakshadweep to free travel by highest class of accommodation in any steamer sailing between andaman and nicobar islands or lakshadweep and the main land territory of india and increasing the amount of  family pension  equivalent to one-half of the pension which any member of parliament would have received at the time of his death,  for life and also for providing  family pension to the spouse or dependent of deceased former members of parliament would involve a recurring annual expenditure of approximately to the tune of forty-four crores of rupees3 the provisions of the bill do not involve any other recurring or non-recurring expenditure annexure extracts from the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act, 1954 (30 of 1954)|                                                                                               |     |     |    ||------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------|------|-----|| salaries and                                                                                   |      |      |     || daily                                                                                          |      |      |     || allowances                                                                                    |      |      |     || 3                                                                                             |      |      |     || a member shall be entitled to receive a salary at the rate of four thousand rupees per         |      |      |     || mensem during the whole of his term of office  and subject to any rules made under this act    |      |      |     || an allowance at the rate of four hundred rupees for each day during any period of residence    |      |      |     || on duty:                                                                                       |      |      |     || provided that no member shall be entitled to the aforesaid allowance unless he signs           |      |      |     || the register, maintained for this purpose by the secretariat of the house of the people or,    |      |      |     || as the case may be, council of states, on all the days (except intervening holidays for        |      |      |     || which no such signing is required) of the session of the house for which the allowance is      |      |      |     || claimed:                                                                                       |      |      |     || 46 of 2001                                                                                    |      |      |     || provided further that in the case of salary, the provisions of this section shall have         |      |      |     || effect as if for the words ''four thousand rupees'', the words ''twelve thousand rupees'' had  |      |      |     || been substituted for a period of five years beginning from the date of commencement of         |      |      |     || the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2001:             |      |      |     || 46 of 2001                                                                                    |      |      |     || provided also that is the case of the allowance, the provisions of this section shall          |      |      |     || have effect as if for the words ''four hundred rupees'', the words ''five hundred rupees'' had |      |      |     || been substituted for a period of five years beginning from the date of commencement of         |      |      |     || the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2001             |      |      |     || travelling                                                                                     |      |      |     || allowances                                                                                    |      |      |     || 4                                                                                             |      |      |     || (                                                                                              |      |      |     || 1                                                                                              |      |      |     || ) there shall be paid to each member in respect of every journey performed by                  |      |      |     || him in india for the purpose of attending a session of a house of parliament or a meeting      |      |      |     || of a committee or for the purpose of attending to any other business connected with his        |      |      |     || duties as a member, from his usual place of residence to the place where the session or the    |      |      |     || meeting is to be held or the other business is to be transacted and for the return journey     |      |      |     || from such place to his usual place of residence—                                               |      |      |     ||                                                                                               |     |     |    |(c) if the journey or any part thereof cannot be performed by rail or air—|     |     |     |     |    ||------|------|------|------|-----|(ii) where the journey or any part thereof is performed by road, a road mileage at the rate of eight rupees per kilometre for each such journey or part thereof:provided that where the spouse of a member, if any, performs such journey or part thereof by road twice in a budget session of parliament and once during every other session of parliament unaccompanied by such member in respect of which such spouse has been allowed to travel by rail or air or partly by air and partly by rail from the usual place of residence of the member to delhi and back under sub-section (2) of section 6b, the road mileage prescribed under this sub-clause shall be allowed to such member for such journey or part thereof:provided further that where a member performs journey by road in delhi from and to an aerodrome, he shall be paid a minimum amount of one hundred and twenty rupees for each such journeyexplanation—for the purposes of sub-clause (ii) of clause (c) this subsection, the expression ''journey'' shall include the journey from and to the railway station, port or aerodrome to and from the usual place of residence of the member or as the case may be, the residence of the member at the place where the session of the house of parliament or a meeting of the committee is to be held or where any other business is to be transacted    5(1)     travelling allowances for intermediate journeys (1a) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a member shall be entitled to receive travelling allowances in respect of every journey performed by air for visiting any place in india during the interval not exceeding seven days between two sittings of a department related standing committee when a house of parliament is adjourned for a fixed period during the budget session:provided that such travelling allowances, excluding the air fare, shall not exceed the total amount of daily allowances which would have been admissible to such member under section 3 for the days of absence if he had not remained absent(2) every member shall be entitled to an amount equal to the fare by air for each single journey by air (other than a journey referred to in section 4 or the second proviso to sub-section (1) of this section or section (6c) performed by him either alone or along with spouse or any member of companions or relatives, from any place in india to any other place in india during his term of office as such member:provided that no member shall be entitled to any payment under this sub-section in respect of any journeys in excess of thirty-two performed by him during any year:provided further that where the number of journeys performed by any member by air is less than thirty-two, then, such number of journeys not performed by him shall be carried over to the following year:provided also that the spouse or companion of a member, as the case may be, may alone perform maximum eight journeys by air from any place of india to the place in india for the purpose of visiting such member and such journey shall be included for the purpose of counting thirty-two journeys referred to in the first proviso to sub-section (2)explanation i—the provisions of clause (c) of sub-section (1) and of sub-section (2)of section 4 shall, so far as may be, apply to travelling allowances payable under this section as they apply to travelling allowances payable under that sectionexplanation ii—for the purposes of this section, "year" means,—74 of 1985(i) in the case of a person who is a member at the commencement of the salary,allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 1985, the year beginning with such commencement and each of the subsequent years;(ii) in the case of a person who becomes a member after such commencement,the year beginning with the date on which his term of office as such member commences and each of the subsequent yearexplanation iii—for the purpose of sub-section (2) any journey performed by the spouse, companions or relatives shall be added in computing the limit of thirty-two journeys specified in the proviso to that sub-section     6d a member who is blind or who is, in the opinion of the chairman of the council of states or, as the case may be, the speaker of the house of the people, so incapacited physically as to require the facility of an attendant shall, with respect to each such journey—    special facilities to blind and physically incapacitated members7 where the interval between the adjournment of a house of parliament or, as the case may be, one sitting of a committee and the re-assembly of that house or the next sitting of the committee at the same place does not exceed seven days and the member concerned elects to remain at such place during the interval, he shall be entitled to draw for each day of residence at such place a daily allowance at the rate specified in section 3:provided that if the member leaves such place during the interval, his absence from the place shall be treated as absence during a session of a house of parliament or a sitting of the committee, as the case may be, and the provisions of section 5 shall apply accordinglyallowances during short intervals between the adjournments of a house of parliament and the re-assembly of that house, etc|                                                                                             ||----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| pension                                                                                     || 9 of 2004                                                                                   || 8a                                                                                          || (                                                                                            || 1                                                                                            || ) with effect from the commencement of the salary, allowances and pension of                 || members of parliament (amendment) act, 2003, there shall be paid a pension of three thousand || rupees per mensem to every person who has served for any period, as a member of the          || provisional parliament or either house of parliament:                                        |provided that where any person has served as a member of the provisional parliament or either house of parliament for a period exceeding five years, there shall be paid to him an additional pension of six hundred rupees per mensem for every year in excess of five yearsexplanation—for the purpose of this sub-section, ''provisional parliament'' shall include the body which functioned as the constituent assembly of the dominion of india immediately before the commencement of the constitution9 of 2004(1a) with effect from the commencement of the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2003, there shall be paid a pension of rupees one thousand and five hundred per mensem, to the spouse, if any, or dependent of any member who dies during his term of office as such member, for a period of five years from the date of his death9 of 2004explanation—for the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the spouse or the dependent of the member referred to in this sub-section shall be entitled to receive the family pension even if the member has died on or before the commencement of the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament (amendment) act, 2003      lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the salary, allowances and pension of members of parliament act, 1954————(shri priyaranjan dasmunsi, minister of  parliamentary affairs and information and broadcasting)mgipmrnd—2352ls(s-5)—21082006