Chennai:
A automotive, gasoline allowance, prolonged well being cowl. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay has introduced an enormous bonanza for Tamil Nadu MLAs. All of the state’s 234 MLAs will get a automotive and an allowance for gasoline and upkeep bills.
The chief minister has introduced that the MLAs will get a authorities car to assist them with their constituency associated works.
“MLAs have to journey to their constituencies often to handle individuals’s issues. Authorities car will guarantee clear and corruption free governance,” the chief minister introduced within the Meeting, justifying the expense.
The Tamil Nadu authorities added that there are variety of MLAs within the present Meeting who’ve been elected for the primary time and are available from humble backgrounds. They want a automotive to discharge their duties as individuals’s consultant, Vijay added.
The announcement got here after VCK MLA Jothimani stated MLAs can’t work successfully with out the required logistics help and requested automobiles for them.
The Vijay authorities has additionally introduced an allowance of Rs 75,000 per thirty days for the MLAs for bills on driver, gasoline and upkeep of automobiles.
Moreover, MLAs will now additionally get a state grant of Rs 25,000 to rent a secretary for official work.
Additional, the Vijay authorities has introduced climbing the well being cowl for the elected representatives from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 25 lakh.
The Chief Minister’s announcement was shortly welcomed by the legislators.
TVK ally Congress MLA Tharagai Cuthbert welcomed the announcement, saying it had made the MLAs “so glad”. She added that even opposition MLAs would welcome the choice, although, understandably, they won’t say so.
College Schooling Minister Raj Mohan additionally backed the transfer, pointing to its wider advantages. Other than serving to MLAs carry out their duties, he stated, the choice would create employment alternatives for drivers and secretaries.
The opposition DMK has, nonetheless, slammed the Vijay’s authorities’s announcement calling it undesirable expense. “This determination will want some huge cash. Automotive for all 234 MLAs will price so much to the state after which there are extra allowances introduced. What was the necessity?” DMK spokesperson A Sarvanan informed NDTV.
