3. Why MLAs can pay for to take a “salary cut” more than you

Maharashtra became the 2nd state after Telangana to reveal a ‘cut’ in the incomes of its ministers, MLAs and government employees to decrease the financial crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic– a welcome move no doubt but one that may be a case of pennies on the dollar.

• Not a cut: To be sure, Telangana’s relocate to decrease the salary bill for March isn’t actually a cut but a deferment— which suggests that the quantity of March salary not paid in April, will be paid in the future. The deferment in Telangana CM, K Chandrashekar Rao’s case will be 75%of the gross salary– the same as for other MLAs while the bureaucrats will see 60%of their gross wage delayed. The deferment is 50%for all other civil servant and 10%for Class IV workers. For pensioners, the deferment depends on the category of the staff member.
• Richie abundant: Telangana’s MLAs are the greatest paid in the country– overtaking their counterparts in Delhi a couple of years back ( Delhi’s MLAs get Rs 2.1 lakh month-to-month consisting of Rs 50,000 as salary). Nevertheless, what the Telangana Chief Minister’s Office hasn’t clarified is whether the deferment applies to gross emoluments or simply the basic wage– that’s because an MLA’s income is Rs 20,000 monthly while the monthly constituency allowance is Rs 2.30 lakh. Rao himself gets a monthly plan of Rs 4.21 lakh, consisting of numerous allowances. The state’s MLAs are also entitled to purchase a vehicle worth upto Rs 30 lakh on a loan that brings in 4%interest per annum– the average auto loan interest rate is around 10%.

  

• Earnings in EMI: In Maharashtra’s case, the salaries for the month of March and April will be paid in two stages— so it’s not precisely a pay cut either. While CM Uddhav Thackeray and his cabinet along with the MLAs will get only 40%of their wage for March, Class A and Class B officers will receive simply 50%while the clerical personnel– Class C– will receive 75%of the March wage. There will be no cut in the wage of Class D or Class IV staff members, that includes peons and office assistants. Maharashtra’s MLAs get a standard income of Rs 67,000 per month, though their month-to-month emoluments increase to Rs 2.3 lakh

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• Over 300 new verified cases of Covid-19 were reported in India on Tuesday, led by 82 in Maharashtra and 57 in Tamil Nadu, as the total infections in the nation crossed 1,600 The Union health ministry, nevertheless, hadn’t updated the info ( in photo) on its site since Tuesday midnight. The number of deaths, too, soared, with 8 reported on the day, taking the total to51 A point to note: As lots of as 626 brand-new cases have been reported in the previous three days, representing almost 40%of all cases in the nation.
• Delhi, which has at least two major hotspots in Nizamuddin and Dilshad Garden, confirmed 23 brand-new cases taking its overall tally to120 This, nevertheless, doesn’t consist of any fresh case of Covid-19 amongst individuals who were transferred to hospitals from the Nizamuddin Markaz. A substantial majority of the new cases reported in Tamil Nadu, too, is connected to the Tablighi Jamaat churchgoers in Nizamuddin. Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are attempting to track all those who have had direct or indirect contact with the churchgoers.
• Maharashtra now has a total of 302 cases. Of the brand-new cases reported on Tuesday, 59 were from Mumbai, 13 from Mumbai Metropolitan Area, 5 from Pune, three from Ahmednagar and 2 from Buldhana. The state attributed the sharp single-day spike to book-keeping adjustments and said that reports from personal laboratories received over the last couple of days had been contributed to the count.
• The advancements in Nizamuddin have also activated a vicious social media campaign targeting a specific neighborhood. Criticising such posts, previous J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted: “Individuals tweeting things with hash tags like Tablighi virus are more dangerous than any virus nature could ever conjure up since their minds are sick while their bodies might effectively be healthy.”
• In Noida, a National Capital Region that falls in Uttar Pradesh, the health care system is facing a lack of isolation beds, with only seven totally free beds offered on Tuesday. The city has taped 41 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 3 new cases on Tuesday.
• In an unusual request, the Centre sought a direction from the Supreme Court that no media outlet should print, release or telecast anything on Covid-19 without “without first determining the real accurate position from the separate system offered by the Main federal government”. Justifying its request, House Secretary Ajay Bhalla said in the affidavit, “panic reaction by any section of the society” based upon “intentional or unexpected phony or inaccurate reporting” would harm the country.

Lawyer General Tushar Mehta, standing for the Centre before a Supreme Court bench on Tuesday said that an advisory has been released to the states relating to complete restriction of inte