New Delhi, March 27 -- Days after the Centre notifying a 24 per cent hike in the salaries of members of Parliament with effect from April 1, 2023, based on the Cost Inflation Index, Delhi Assembly formed a five-member committee on Wednesday to look into the demands for revising MLAs' salaries, after BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators raised the issue during a discussion in the House.
The committee will also look into requests of MLAs to increase in the number of staff provided to them for constituency- related works and revising the remuneration for the data entry operators provided to them.
The formation of the panel comes close on the heels of Centre notifying a 24 per cent hike in the salaries of members of Parliament with effec...