{"id":321916,"date":"2020-04-06T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321916"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:46:41","slug":"covid-19-ministers-mps-to-take-pay-cut-for-1-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-ministers-mps-to-take-pay-cut-for-1-year\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Ministers, MPs to take pay cut for 1 year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321917 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prakash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/prakash.jpg 570w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/prakash-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/prakash-441x420.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/>The Union Cabinet has approved an ordinance slashing salaries, pensions and allowances of members of the Parliament by 30 per cent for a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCabinet approves ordinance amending the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 reducing allowances and pension by 30% w.e.f. 1st April, 2020 for a year,\u201d Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu and many state governors have also voluntarily decided to take a pay cut as a social responsibility. The money will go to Consolidated Fund of India,&#8221; the Union minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The cabinet has also approved temporary suspension of MPLAD (Member of Parliament local Area Development) fund scheme during 2020-21 and 2021-22, for managing health and adverse impact of outbreak of COVID19 in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet has approved an ordinance slashing salaries, pensions and allowances of members of the Parliament by 30 per cent for a year. \u201cCabinet approves ordinance amending the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 reducing allowances and pension by 30% w.e.f. 1st April, 2020 for a year,\u201d Union minister Prakash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[485,4477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321918,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321916\/revisions\/321918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}