This salary is different in every state. The highest salary in India is Rs 2.5 lakh per month for MLAs in Telangana, while the lowest salary is Rs 34000 for Tripura MLAs.
Let us know in this article how much salary the legislators of every state of India get.
| State | MLA salary and allowances |
| 1. Telangana | 2.50 Lakh |
| 2. Delhi | 2.10 Lakh |
| 3. Uttar Pradesh | 1.87 Lakh |
| 4. Maharashtra | 1.70 Lakh |
| 5. Jammu & Kashmir | 1.60 Lakh |
| 6. Uttarakhand | 1.60 Lakh |
| 7. Andhra Pradesh | 1.30 Lakh |
| 8. Himachal Pradesh | 1.25 Lakh |
| 9. Rajasthan | 1.25 Lakh |
| 10. Goa | 1.17 Lakh |
| 11. Haryana | 1.15 Lakh |
| 12. Punjab | 1.14 Lakh |
| 13. Jharkhand | 1.11 Lakh |
| 14. Madhya Pradesh | 1.10 Lakh |
| 15. Chhattisgarh | 1.10 Lakh |
| 16. Bihar | 1.14 Lakh |
| 17. West Bengal | 1.13 Lakh |
| 18. Tamil Nadu | 1.05 Lakh |
| 19. Karnataka | 98 thousand |
| 20. Sikkim | 86.5 thousand |
| 21. Kerala | 70 thousand |
| 22. Gujarat | 65 thousand |
| 23. Odisha | 62 thousand |
| 24. Meghalaya | 59 thousand |
| 25. Puducherry | 50 thousand |
| 26. Arunachal Pradesh | 49 thousand |
| 27. Mizoram | 47 thousand |
| 28. Assam | 42 thousand |
| 29. Manipur | 37 thousand |
| 30. Nagaland | 36 thousand |
| 31. Tripura | 34 thousand |
What other benefits does the MLA get besides salary?
Let us take stock of the facilities provided to an MLA from Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state.
In Uttar Pradesh, an MLA gets Rs 7.5 crore as an MLA fun and within five years. Apart from this, the MLA gets 75 thousand rupees a month as salary, 24 thousand rupees for diesel expenses, 6000 personal assistants, 6000 rupees for mobile expenses, and 6000 rupees, for treatment expenses. There is a separate cost for drinking and traveling in your area. After mixing all these, the MLA gets a total of 1.87 lakh rupees every month.
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The MLA also gets the right that he can also install 200 hand pumps in 5 years to solve the problem of water in his area, while the cost of installing a pump is about 50 thousand. Apart from this, a person can travel free on traveling on the railway with the MLA.
What are the benefits after retirement?
After the end of the term, the MLA gets 30 thousand rupees in the form of a pension every month, 8000 rupees as diesel expenses, along with free railway pass and medical facility for life. In a line, if you are a legislator, once you become an MLA, the whole life is protected.
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This question may arise here: how is there such a difference in the salary of the legislators of these states. Actually, the MLA gets a salary from the respective state treasury. Because of this, the states which have more money give more salary to their MLAs. In all the states of Northeast India, MLAs get the lowest salary because these states have fewer resources.
It is known that in the last seven years, the average salary of MLAs has increased by about 125%. The maximum increase in salary is 450% for Delhi MLAs and then for Telangana MLAs by 170%.
The salary of MPs is two times more than the average salary of MLAs. The MP gets Rs 2.91 lakhs every month; this includes a basic salary of a Rs 1.40 lakh and allowance of Rs 1.51 lakh.
At present, the President of India will be given Rs. Five lakhs + other allowances every month, the Vice-President will be given Rs. 4 lakhs per month + other allowances, Rs 1.60 lakhs + other allowances to the Prime Minister, Rs. 3.5 lakhs to the Governor + other allowances, Chief of the Supreme Court. The judge gets Rs 2.80 lakh + other allowances every month while the cabinet secretary gets Rs 2.50 lakh.
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