Sri Lankan Parliament Salaries

Sri Lankan MP's Salaries

An Important Issue: MUST READ Politics is not a SERVICE anymore but a PROFESSION!!! An Important Issue! Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP) Monthly Salary : Rs. 12,000/- Expense for Constitution per month : Rs. 10,000/- Office expenditure per month : Rs. 14,000/- Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : Rs. 48,000/- (eg. For a visit from Nuwara eliya & return : 600 km) Daily DA TA during parliament meets : Rs. 500/day Charge for 1 class (A/C) in Train : Free (For any number of times) (All over sri lanka ) Charge for Business Class in Flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.) Rent for MP hostel at almost colombo: Free. Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units. Local phone call charge : Free up to 170,000 calls.. TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : Rs.3,200,000/- [i.e. 2.66 Lakh A Month] TOTAL expense for 5 years : Rs. 16,000,000/- For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : Rs. 8,544,000,000/- (Nearly 855 crores) AND THE PRIME MINISTER IS ASKING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, OUT PERFORMING CEOs TO CUT DOWN THEIR SALARIES..... This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities......... 855 crores could make their lives livable!! Think of the great democracy we have… & FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL REAL CITIZENS OF SRI LANKA I know hitting the Delete button is easier...but ....try to press the Fwd button & make people aware!