Aiming excellence: Panel proposes higher perks for MPs
Increasing salaries and allowances of the members is not enough
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ISLAMABAD:
A top Senate panel on Friday proposed higher perks and privileges for lawmakers and entitling them to what parliamentarians were already receiving in other parts of the globe.
He added that there is need for providing official services, for instance office spaces, staff and research facilities to enhance the capacity of the standing committees and eventually the parliament.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 30th, 2015.
A top Senate panel on Friday proposed higher perks and privileges for lawmakers and entitling them to what parliamentarians were already receiving in other parts of the globe.
Such incentives, according to Senate Standing Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges, would help to enhance the functioning and performance of the standing committees, parliament and government.
“Increasing salaries and allowances of the members is not enough,” said the committee chairman MNA Chaudhry Asadur Rehman in a meeting held at the Parliament Lodges on Friday.
He added that there is need for providing official services, for instance office spaces, staff and research facilities to enhance the capacity of the standing committees and eventually the parliament.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 30th, 2015.