2 3 3 1. Salary usual place of residence to their nearest airport residence or at a place selected by the irrespective of rail connection. MP in the State he/she resides. ` 1,00,000/- p.m. payable during the whole term of office as member Rajya Sabha. (iv) Air Journeys - Thirty-four single air journeys a (c) One additional landline connection at 2. Daily Allowance year to be availed alone or with spouse or any Delhi or his usual place of residence or number of companions or relatives. Any such ` 2,000/- per day for attending the Session and at a place selected by the MP for internet journey performed by the spouse, companions sitting of a Committee. Daily Allowances is also connection; and or relatives shall be included in computing the admissible for a period of three days immediately limit of 34 air journeys. Out of this 34 free air preceding the commencement and succeeding the (d) Broadband facility on any existing journeys, spouse or companion of a member is conclusion of the Sesion; and two days immediately landline connection against surrender of preceding the commencement and succeeding the entitled to travel alone to a maximum of 8 air journeys to visit such Member. The balance 10000 local calls per annum. conclusion of the business of the Committee subject to presence of the Member at the place of Business. of unused air journeys shall be carried over to the following year. Air journeys performed in (ii) A Member is also entitled to broadband Daily Allowance is admissible only when the facility on any one of the existing landline free Member is at the place of Business and signs the excess of 34 in a year, subject to a maximum of eight may be adjusted from the 34 air of charge upto a maximum of Rs.1,500/- per register maintained for the purpose. month. journeys available for the next following year. 3. Constituency Allowance . Only eight exchange orders shall be issued at ` 70,000/- p.m. payable during the whole term of a time but no exchange order will be issued in (iii) A Member is also entitled to avail High Speed office as member, Rajya Sabha. favour of the companion except in cases of Broad Band on the Fibre to the home (FTTH) widows, widowers or bachelors. with wi-fi sevices at his residence in Delhi 4. Office Expense Allowance from MTNL free of charge up to a maximum 6. Rail Travel Facilities - For Member of Rs.2,200/- per month. `60,000/- p.m. out of which: One free non-transferable Railway pass (iv) A member may use any number of (i) `20,000/- shall be paid to the Member towards which entitles the Member alone or with spouse to telephones for availing the above-mentioned meeting expenses on stationery items and travel in first class air-conditioned or Executive 1,50,000 free local calls subject to the postage; and class by any train in India along with a companion condition that the telephones are in the name (ii) 40,000/- shall be paid to person(s) engaged in AC two tier. A Member having no spouse may be ` of the Member and the installation and rental by the Members for obtaining Secretarial accompanied by any person in place of the spouse in the same class in addition to the facility of one charges of additional telephones are borne Assistance which shall be paid from the date by the Member himself. companion in AC two tier. on which the engagement of such person(s) is (v) A Member may avail all such connections intimated to the Secretariat in the prescribed For Spouse form. from any private operator where the services (i) The spouse is entitled to travel in first class air of MTNL or BSNL are not available subject to 5. Travelling Allowance conditioned or executive class in any train the condition that the registration and rentral (i) Travelling Allowance for attending a Session of from the usual place of residence of the charges will be borne by the Member Rajya Sabha or a Meeting of a Committee or for Member to Delhi/New Delhi and back on a himself/herself. the purpose of attending to any other business free non-transferable Railway pass issued to connected with his/her duties as a Member from the Member for use separately by spouse. 8. Conveyance Advance his/her usual place of residence (UPR) to the A member may avail `.4,00,000/- or the cost of place of duty and back is admissible as under: (ii) The spouse of a Member shall be entitled to the vehicle whichever is less as advance for the travel alone either by Air/Rail/Road from the purchase of a conveyance. Recovery of the said (a) By air – one air-fare. usual place of residence of the Member to advance together with simple interest at the rate (b) By Rail – free rail travel against the Rail- Delhi and back when the Parliament is in fixed by the Central Government from time to time way Pass issued to MP. Session, subject to the condition that total shall be made from the salary bill of the Member number of such air/road journeys shall not in not more than sixty equal monthly installments, (c) By Road – Road mileage @ `16/- per km. exceed eight in a year. which shall not extend beyond the tenure of (ii) Road mileage for Members and their spouses 7. Telephone Facilities his/her membership. residing within a distance of 300 kms from Delhi 9. Water & Electricity (i) A Members is entitled to a total of 150000 free is admissible for the journeys performed by road local calls per annum pooled together on the 4000 KL of water and 50000 units of electricity irrespective of rail connection. st following landline/mobile connection: per annum beginning 1 of January every year (iii) Road mileage for Members and their spouses is free in respect of residence allotted to MPs in residing in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, (a) One landline and one mobile connection Delhi/New Delhi and MPs who are residing in Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, in Delhi with roaming facility. private accommodation in Delhi. Unutilized Nagaland, Sikkim or Tripura is also admissible (b) One landline and one mobile connection portion of Electricity and water will be carried over for the journeys performed by road from their either in Delhi or at his usual place of to the subsequent years. Similarly Water and electricity consumed in excess to the quota available term subject to condition that minimum period of in a year will be adjusted from the quota available for term left is not less than six months. In order to the next year. reduce dependency of Members on paper copies of 10. Accommodation Parliamentary documents and thereby achieve the _________________________________________ (i) Accommodation in the form of a flat is rent free goal of reduction in the use of paper, an amount of throughout the term of office to an MP. Rs. 50,000/- out of the financial entitlement of a ENTITLEMENT OF SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND However, license fee is charged on bungalow. Member has been earmarked to facilitate purchase OTHER FACILITIES TO MEMBERS OF of an approved E-reader compatible devices. RAJYA SABHA (ii) A new Member who comes to Delhi prior to the Member can purchase any branded model E-reader notification in the Official Gazette regarding tablet device which operates on iOS or Android or his/her election is entitled to transit Windows operating systems and have a screen ___________________________________________ accommodation. size of not less than 7 inches. Procurement of one (iii) Tiles in kitchen and bathroom as demanded and such device by Members using their initial financial the facility of washing of sofa covers and entitlement, during the first year of their tenure, is curtains every 3 months. mandatory. E-mail facility is provided to Members (iv) Furniture to be made available free of charge to by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) free of the MPs within the existing monetary ceiling of charge. To facilitate Members, secured wi-fi `80,000/- in respect of durable furniture and facilities in the Parliament House Complex including Rs.20,000/- for non durable furniture. Additional the Inner and Outer Lobbies of Rajya Sabha have furniture on rent based on its depreciated value been set up by the National Informatics Centre would also be made available. (NIC). A Member can register for a maximum of 11. Medical three portable device for wi-fi access in the Parliament House Complex. Members of Parliament are entitled to same medical facilities as are available to the Officers of **************** Central Civil Services, Class-I Officer under Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS). 12. Special facility to Blind and physically incapacitated Members A blind or physically incapacitated member, with the permission of the Presiding Officer is entitled to have his attendant travel in the same class in which he is travelling by air and in case of rail journey, in First Class AC or executive class instead of AC II tier. A Physically incapacitated member who cannot travel either by air or rail is entitled for road mileage for the entire journey performed by him by road alongwith an attendant. 13. Computer Equipment and IT Facilities Members are entitled to purchase items of approved computer equipment (Desktop computer, Laptop Computer, Pen drive, Printer, Scanner, UPS, Handheld communicator/computer, Smart Phone, __________________________________________ Data internet cards, MS Office suite, Language softwares, Speech recognition softwares, E-reader RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT device, Computer Monitor and External Hard Drive).