Gujarat MLAs to get Rs116K salary

Cutting across party lines, the Gujarat legislators on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill in the State Assembly proposing to hike their salaries by at least Rs45,000 a month with retrospective effect from February this year. Accordingly, the monthly salary of the MLAs will be increased to Rs116,000 from the existing Rs70,727, a rise of about 64 per cent, while those of the Ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Leader of Opposition will go up to Rs132,000 from Rs86,000, an increase of about 54 per cent.