Bihar women’s panel chief gets 400 per cent salary hike
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s assets may have remained almost the same in the last one year, but the salaries of some of his appointees are set to take a quantum leap.
The Bihar Cabinet at a meeting chaired by the chief minister has decided to hike the salaries of the chairperson and members of the State Women’s Commission by nearly 400 and 300 per cent respectively.
After this revision, the salary of the chairperson of the commission will be Rs 79,000; approximately 400 per cent more than the present Rs 21,000. Similarly, the salaries of the members of the women’s panel will undergo a three-fold hike, from Rs 15,000 to Rs 47,400 every month.
Unfortunately for the librarians working in the different government libraries of the State, their salary will only be hiked by Rs 1,500 which brings their pay check to an amount of Rs 7,500 per month. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) wondered how the chief minister’s assets could have remained almost unchanged since last year. “Does it mean the chief minister is not drawing his salary? On the one hand deputy chief minister’s assets have increased, while that of Nitish is static. This is quite intriguing,” said RJD principal general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Ram Kripal Yadav.
He said that the declaration given by ministers show that the assets of their spouses and children have increased manifold compared to theirs (ministers). “The assets of the kith and kin of ministers have shown an ‘unnatural growth’. Only an independent inquiry by an impartial agency can unravel the mystery,” said Yadav, a trusted aide of Lalu.
