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House committee wants hike in loans for MLAs

| Tuesday | 5th February, 2019

Bhopal: The MP Assembly secretariat has forwarded a proposal for increase in the amount of soft loans extended to MLAs for purchase of houses and vehicles. After the constitution of 15th House, process for disbursement of loans for purchase of house/vehicles and grant for purchse of computer/laptop has to be undertaken. Till then, we are not coming up with any sops.” “Sadasya Suvidha Samiti” of the 14th House in its last meeting had found that the loan given to MLAs for purchase of houses/vehicles, computer/laptops was “highly insufficient”.In this light, the committee after due deliberation had decided to recommend raising of house loan to members of the legislative assembly from existing Rs 25 lakh to Rs 50 lakh and loan for purchase of vehicles to Rs 20 lakh in place of Rs 15 lakh. The committee also decided to recommend hiking the period of loan subsidy on both the loans from existing five years to 19 years (the loan accruing on the two loans for five years is given to MLAs by the state government as grant).The letter further said that the committee had recommended raising the grant given for purchase of computer/laptop from Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000 and the former Speaker, Sitasaran Sharma had endorsed the recommendations of the committee.The committee had met in the auditorium no.

Bhopal: The MP Assembly secretariat has forwarded a proposal for increase in the amount of soft loans extended to MLAs for purchase of houses and vehicles. It has also suggested an increase in grant given to lawmakers for purchase of laptop from Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000.The proposal is based on the recommendations of “Sadasya Suvidha Samiti” (committee to take care of facilities for the MLAs) of 14th state assembly headed by BJP MLA, Neena Vikram Verma.Text of the letter sent to department of legislative affairs said, “Fourteenth state assembly has disintegrated and 15th assembly has come into existence from December 13, 2018. After the constitution of 15th House, process for disbursement of loans for purchase of house/vehicles and grant for purchse of computer/laptop has to be undertaken. “Sadasya Suvidha Samiti” of the 14th House in its last meeting had found that the loan given to MLAs for purchase of houses/vehicles, computer/laptops was “highly insufficient”.In this light, the committee after due deliberation had decided to recommend raising of house loan to members of the legislative assembly from existing Rs 25 lakh to Rs 50 lakh and loan for purchase of vehicles to Rs 20 lakh in place of Rs 15 lakh. The committee also decided to recommend hiking the period of loan subsidy on both the loans from existing five years to 19 years (the loan accruing on the two loans for five years is given to MLAs by the state government as grant).The letter further said that the committee had recommended raising the grant given for purchase of computer/laptop from Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000 and the former Speaker, Sitasaran Sharma had endorsed the recommendations of the committee.The committee had met in the auditorium no. 6 in the state assembly building on June 25, 2018 and the meeting was attended by Ashok Rohani, Jitendra Gehlot, Tarun Bhanot, Mamta Meena, Mahendra Singh and Lakhan Singh Yadav.Tarun Bhanot might have been a member of the committee, which recommended hefty increase in the amount of soft loans to MLAs, but when contacted for comments on the recommendations of the committee as finance minister of the state, he simply said, “Our first priority is to set the financial condition of the state right. Till then, we are not coming up with any sops.”

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