Politicians should be asked to work for free in india

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POLITICIANS SHOULD BE ASKED TO

WORK FOR FREE

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Presented by

Preeti mitraPranay jain

Sumit ahluwalia



STATEMAN V /S POLITICION

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GANDHI JI MUBAARK



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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLITICIANS AND

STATESMEN

• Statesmen look for breakthroughs while

politicians thrive on breakdowns.• Statesmen generate cooperation, confidence

and creativity. politicians generate confusion,

conflicts and controversies.

• Statesmen lead, politician mislead.

• Statesmen dream, politician scheme.



Should politicians get asalary for participating in

the political system?

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I say NO!

Don't pay politicians at all !



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I wonder, why don’t people aspire to join politics? At the same time

I also wonder as to why do people at large abhor the career of apolitician. I can understand that such feelings can emanate from

those enterprising people who want to make a difference in life in

their own way, but what I don’t understand is why do the lazy and

disillusioned ones also nurture similar feelings. What more would

anyone want than access to some unwarranted luxuries and perksof life absolutely free of cost! On top of that, there aren’t any

defined job profiles or descriptions, no constraint of age,

education, no accountability, no discipline, no reporting and voila!

– you get paid for all this, and get a raise too!!

Thus, works done by MPs are neither normatively defined nor is

objectively measurable and yet they get paid handsomely and get a

raise too, which is comparable and equivalent to bureaucrats, and

yet no one opts for politics as a career.



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Now the question is that if all this is true then why in the first place an MP should get

paid? Call it utopia — But joining politics was meant to be fundamentally a public

spirited voluntary decision and less of a conventional mode of not working and yet

earning a living. Since the beginning of human civilization, people who wanted to

serve the society and transform them, opted for such career without an aim of

upgrading their own economic stature. But then, what we observe is just the

converse! Today, the biggest entry barrier to politics is the amount of investment that

one has to make. And this is a glaring reality of our political system today. Till the

time this remains an utopian dream, at least they should not be paid!



ALLOWANCE TO INDIAN POLITICIAN

Each Indian MP gets: Rs. 14, 000 for office expenses every month, which includes Rs. 3,000

for stationary items, Rs. 1,000 on franking of letters and Rs. 10,000 for

secretariat services.

A monthly constituency allowance of Rs. 10,000.

A daily allowance of Rs. 500 when Parliament is in session.Parliament has three sessions every year.

The Budget Session (February to May),

Monsoon session (July to September), &

Winter session (November and December).

Each MP and his assistant are entitled to unlimited, free, first classrailway travel anywhere in the country. They can also travel anywhere in

India — with a companion — 40 times by air free of cost every year,

business class.

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ALLOWANCE TO INDIAN MP CONTD..

An MP gets a sprawling bungalow in the heart of New

Delhi for which he pays a rent of just Rs. 2,000 per

month.

Each MP gets free electricity of 50,000 units every year and free water.

The MP's bungalow is furnished — with air conditioners,

refrigerators and television sets — free of cost.

Maintenance of the house including washing of sofa

covers and curtains is done free of cost by the

government.

MPs are entitled to three phone lines and 1,70,000 free

local calls every year. 10



Politics is about ideas. It's not a

profession where one gets paid for

sitting in an office whole day…

Do you really think that politician should paid

salary on attending parliament session, but weknow very well what they do at parliament.

Except some senior member most of them make

quarrel among each other for political benefit’s 11

Going by this again, I wonder why should

politician paid a huge amount of money

that they get in the name of salary.



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Country Process of determining salary

India Decided by Parliament

Australia Remuneration Tribunal

Canada Commission to review MPs’ pay; salary pegged to annual wage rate index

France MP pay linked to that of civil servants

Germany Decided by parliament (Bundestag)

New Zealand Remuneration Authority

UK Parliament votes upon

recommendations of the Senior Salaries

Review Board

US Decided by parliament (Congress)

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Is establishing an independent salaries

commission a solution?



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joining politics was meant to be fundamentally a

public spirited voluntary decision and less of a

conventional mode of not working and yet

earning a living. Since the beginning of human

civilization, people who wanted to serve the

society and transform them, opted for such

career without an aim of upgrading their own

economic stature. But then, what we observe is

just the converse! Today, the biggest entrybarrier to politics is the amount of investment

that one has to make. And this is a glaring reality

of our political system today.

Why MPs should not paid ?



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TECHNOLOGY vs. POLITICS

Technology is mankind’s best friend whereas politics is it’s biggest enemy and politics

corrupts technology as well. It turns atomic

energy into an atom bomb kills millions of

people such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki.



CONCLUSION

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•CHANGE IN SELECTION PROCESS

•WORK THROUGH NGOs

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