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The bill had received unanimous support in the assembly.It will be a windfall for 182 Gujarat MLAs who got a whopping 65% hike in their monthly salaries. Ministers and those in key posts in the state assembly will draw a monthly salary of Rs 1.32 lakh instead of the previous Rs 86,000. The salary of MLAs has been raised from just over Rs 70,727 to Rs 1.16 lakh per month. The total burden of arrears on the exchequer will be more than Rs 6 crore.The salaries and allowances of all MLAs was last revised way back in 2005. GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat governor O P Kohli on Friday gave his approval to ‘The Gujarat Salaries and Allowance of Members, Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly , Ministers and Leader of the Opposition Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018’ which had been passed by the state assembly in the monsoon session in September..