Pay hike for MLAs and MLCs

Patna, Sep 22 (UNI) Ministers including the chief minister, speaker and chairman of legislative assembly and council, leader of the opposition in both houses and MLAs and MLCs of Bihar will now get salaries and allowances at enhanced rate.

A decision to that effect was taken today in a meeting of the state cabinet which also gave its nod to a proposal for raising the rate of pensions for former members of the legislatures.

Cabinet coordination secretary A K Chauhan said that leaders of both houses of the state legislature, chief whips of different political parties and parliamentary secretaries would also figure in the list of beneficiaries.

In view of the increasing crimes against women, the cabinet approved raising a separate women battalion under state police.

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