The Vidhana Soudha Assembly hall being sanitised amid the COVID-19 scare, on Wednesday.

The Vidhana Soudha Assembly hall being sanitised in the middle of the COVID-19 scare, on Wednesday.|Image Credit: Unique Plan

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The cut in salary would save the State exchequer1536 crore for one year.

The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday decided to slash 30%monthly incomes and allowances of MLAs, MLCs and Ministers, the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker for one year, in the wake of increasing COVID-19 cases.

The cut in income would save the State exchequer1536 crore for one year.

A decision to this result was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister B S Yediyurapp