Dissatisfied with 300% pay rise, MPs hold up Lok Sabha

सांसदों को चाहिए 5 गुना इंक्रीमेंट, किसान मांग रहे मौत दैनिक भास्कर - ‎54 मिनट पहले‎ नई दिल्ली. देश की राजधानी नई दिल्ली में सांसद अपना वेतन 80 हजार रुपये प्रति माह करने के लिए लड़ रहे हैं, जबकि झारखंड के सूखा प्रभावित एक गांव के दो हजार किसान जान देने के लिए राष्ट्रपति से इच्छा मृत्यु की इजाजत चाह रहे हैं। खेती बर्बाद हो जाने के चलते पूरे गांव ने सामूहिक रूप से अर्जी दी है कि अगर सरकार उन्हें कोई मदद नहीं दे सकती तो मरने की इजाजत ही दे दे। मानसून में बारिश नहीं होने के कारण झारखंड की हालत खराब है। ... तीन गुना वेतन बढने पर भी सांसद मांगे ओर खास खबर - ‎3 घंटे पहले‎ मुंबई। केंद्र सरकार ने शुक्रवार को सांसदों के वेतन में तीन गुना और भत्तों में दोगुने की वृद्धि संबंधी प्रस्ताव को मंजूरी दे दी लेकिन इस वृद्धि से असंतुष्ट सांसदों ने लोकसभा की कार्यवाही में बाधा पैदा की। सांसदों का वेतन 16 हजार रूपये प्रति माह से बढ़ाकर 50 हजार रूपये करने का प्रस्ताव है। मंत्रिमंडल की बैठक में वेतन और भत्तों में वृद्धि संबंधी विधेयक को मंजूरी दे दी गई। सांसदों का कहना है कि उनका वेतन संसदीय समिति की ... बढ़े वेतन से नाखुश सांसदों का हंगामा डी-डब्लू वर्ल्ड - ‎5 घंटे पहले‎ भारत सरकार ने सांसदों का वेतन 16 हजार रुपये से बढ़ाकर 50 हजार रुपये कर दिया है. लेकिन विपक्षी सांसदों की मांग है कि इसे 80 हजार रुपये किया जाए. इस मुद्दे पर शुक्रवार को लोकसभा में खासा हंगामा हुआ. सांसदों की वेतन वृद्धि के मुद्दे पर जब सदन में "सांसदों का अपमान बंद करो" और "संसदीय समिति की रिपोर्ट को लागू करो" जैसे नारे गूंजने लगे तो स्पीकर मीरा कुमार को सदन की कार्यवाही स्थगित करनी पड़ी. समाजवादी पार्टी, बीएसपी, जेडी (यू), ... वेतन 16से50 हजार हुआ, भत्ते भी बढ़े, फ़िर भी सांसद नाखुश प्रभात खबर - ‎5 घंटे पहले‎ नयी दिल्ली: सांसदों के वेतन में तीन गुना वृद्धि (तीन सौ फीसदी) को केंद्रीय कैबिनेट ने शुक्रवार को मंजूरी दे दी. सांसदों के वेतन अब 16 हजार रुपये से बढ़ कर 50 हजार रुपये हो जायेंगे. इसके अलावा अन्य भत्तों को भी दोगुना कर दिया गया है. सांसदों की पेंशन भी आठ हजार रुपये से बढ़ा कर 20 हजार रुपये कर दी गयी है. जो सांसद पांच साल से ज्यादा का कार्यकाल पूरा कर चुके हैं, उन्हें पांच साल के बाद अतिरिक्त कार्यकाल के लिए पेंशन के तौर पर हर साल ... 300 फीसदी इंक्रीमेंट पर भड़के लालू-मुलायम, 500 फीसदी की मांग दैनिक भास्कर - ‎16 घंटे पहले‎ नई दिल्ली. सांसदों का वेतन 300 फीसदी बढ़ाने के फैसले पर कैबिनेट का मन चार दिन में ही बदल गया, पर सांसदों का मन इससे नहीं भरा। शुक्रवार को कैबिनेट ने सांसदों के वेतन बढ़ोतरी के प्रस्ताव को मंजूरी दे दी। इसके बावजूद लोकसभा में जोरदार हंगामा हुआ। इस वजह से सदन की कार्यवाही तक स्थगित करनी पड़ी। विपक्षी सांसदों ने 300 फीसदी की वेतन बढ़ोतरी पर नाखुशी जताते हुए इसे 500 फीसदी किए जाने की जोरदार मांग की। आरजेडी के अध्यक्ष लालू प्रसाद ... 3 गुना बढ़ोतरी पर भी नाखुश Business standard Hindi - ‎14 घंटे पहले‎ केंद्रीय कैबिनेट द्वारा सांसदों के वेतन वृद्धि को मंजूरी दिए जाने के बाद अब सभी सांसदों की मासिक आमदनी बढ़कर 1.02 लाख रुपये हो गई है। प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह की अध्यक्षता में आज सुबह हुई केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल ने इस बारे में गठित सांसदों की समिति की सिफारिशों पर विचार करने के बाद उनका मूल वेतन 16 हजार से बढ़ाकर 50 हजार रुपये प्रति महीना करने को मंजूरी दे दी है। हालांकि समिति ने सांसदों के मूल वेतन में पांच गुना बढ़ोतरी कर ... सियासी-शो में लालू की शो-मैनशिप दैनिक भास्कर - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ नई दिल्ली सियासी-शो की पटकथा में लालू प्रसाद के खालिस डायलॉग मिले तो पूरा एपीसोड ही राजद सुप्रीमो के इर्दगिर्द सिमट कर रह गया। सांसदों की वेतन वृद्धि के पार्लियामेंट-शो में लालू की शो-मैनशिप सिर चढ़ कर बोली। और लालू भी अपने रौ में खूब बोले। न केवल सांसदों के वेतन को बढ़ाना उन्होंने जायज करार दिया बल्कि कैबिनेट की बैठक में विधेयक को अटकाने वाले कुछ मंत्रियों को भी उन्होंने अपने खास अंदाज में जमकर खरी-खोटी सुनाई। ... सांसदों की वेतन वृद्धि के मुद्दे पर प्रमुख राजनीतिक दलों की समीक्षा That's Hindi - ‎१८-०८-२०१०‎ नई दिल्ली। वित्त मंत्री प्रणव मुखर्जी ने मंगलवार को लोकसभा में सांसदों के वेतन वृद्धि पर विधेयक लाने का प्रस्ताव रख कर सदन में भूचाल ला दिया है। उन्होने लोकसभा में कहा, "सरकार सांसदों की वेतन वृद्धि के लिए विधेयक यथा संभव जल्द से जल्द पेश करने के लिए तैयार है। सांसद वेतन-भत्ता अधिनियम, 1954 में संशोधन के लिए एक विधेयक पेश करना है। हम इसी सत्र में इस विधेयक को लाने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं।" जहां एक ओर भारत की जनता रोज बढ़ती महंगाई ... इंक्रीमेंट नहीं होने से लालू नाराज, कहा-हो रहा सांसदों का अपमान दैनिक भास्कर - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ नई दिल्ली. करीब दो दशक से मुख्यमंत्री, रेल मंत्री और सांसद रहने वाले लालू प्रसाद यादव वेतन वृद्धि नहीं होने से खासे नाराज हैं। उन्होंने सांसदों की तनख्वाह 300 फीसदी बढ़ाने वाले प्रस्ताव का विरोध करने वाले कैबिनेट मंत्रियों को आड़े हाथों लिया है। मंगलवार को लोकसभा में लालू यादव और समाजवादी पार्टी नेता मुलायम सिंह ने शून्यकाल में सांसदों के वेतन और भत्तों का मामला उठाया। बीजेपी के अलावा सभी दलों के सांसदों ने उनका साथ ... सांसदों के वेतन भत्ते के मुद्दे पर संसद में हंगामा याहू! जागरण - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ नई दिल्ली। संसद में मंगलवार को विभिन्न दलों के सदस्यों ने सांसदों का वेतन भत्ता बढ़ाए जाने के फैसले को केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल द्वारा टाले जाने पर भारी हंगामा किया, जिसके कारण लोकसभा की कार्यवाही करीब दो घंटे के लिए स्थगित करनी पड़ी और राज्यसभा की कार्यवाही भी कुछ देर के लिए बाधित हुई। लोकसभा में प्रश्नकाल समाप्त होते ही राजद के लालू प्रसाद ने यह मामला उठाते हुए कहा कि वेतन भत्ता के मामले में सांसदों को नीचा दिखाने का काम ... जल्द बढ़ेगी सांसदों की पगार दैनिक भास्कर - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ नई दिल्ली. संसद सदस्यो के वेतन में बढोत्तरी संबंधी विधेयक संसद के मौजूदा मानसून सत्न में ही लाया जायेगा। वित्त मंत्नी प्रणव मुखर्जी ने आज लोकसभा में कहा कि सरकार को सांसदों के वेतन बढ़ाने के संबंध में गठित संयुक्त संसदीय समिति की रिपोर्ट मिल गयी है और इस रिपोर्ट के आधार पर सरकार संसद के मौजूदा सत्न में विधेयक लायेगी ताकि 1954 के कानून में संशोधन करके सांसदों का वेतन बढ़ाया जा सके। गौरतलब है कि केन्द्रीय कैबिनेट की कल हुयी ... सांसदों के वेतन पर मीरा तटस्थ वेबदुनिया हिंदी - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ सांसदों के वेतन बढ़ाए जाने की माँग पर लोकसभा अध्यक्ष मीरा कुमार ने कहा कि वह इस मुद्दे पर 'तटस्थ' रहना पसंद करेंगी। इस मुद्दे पर कई दलों के सदस्यों के भारी हंगामें की वजह से लोकसभा की बैठक दो घंटे के लिए स्थगित किए जाने के बाद अध्यक्ष ने कहा कि फिलहाल इस मुद्दे पर सदन में आपने हंगामा और सांसदों के अलग-अलग विचार देखे। उन्होंने कहा कि जब सदन में मत भिन्नता हो तो अध्यक्ष, जिससे तटस्थता की अपेक्षा की जाती है, उसे अपने विचार ... तीन गुना वेतन बढ़ने पर भी सांसद संतुष्ट नहीं, संसद में किया हंगामा खास खबर - ‎22 घंटे पहले‎ नई दिल्ली। राष्ट्रीय जनता दल (राजद) और समाजवादी पार्टी नेता केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल द्वारा सांसदों का वेतन तीन गुना बढ़ाए जाने से संतुष्ट नहीं है। इन दलों ने इस वेतन वृदि्ध को कम बताते हुए शुक्रवार को लोकसभा में विरोध करते हुए जमकर हंगामा मचाया। इसके चलते लोकसभा की कार्यवाही दूसरी बार स्थगित करनी प़डी है। गौरतलब है कि केबिनेट ने आज ही बैठक कर सांसदों के वेतन बढ़ोतरी की मंजूरी दी है। अब इस बिल को लोकसभा में पेश किया जाएगा। ... तीन गुना हुआ वेतन, फिर भी खुश नहीं सांसद एनडीटीवी खबर - ‎22 घंटे पहले‎ सांसदों की तनख्वाह तीन गुना करने के फैसले से भी कुछ सांसद खुश नहीं है और इस पर संसद में हंगामा मचा रहे हैं। लोकसभा में सांसदों की तनख्वाह को लेकर हंगामे के बाद कार्रवाई स्थगित करनी पड़ी। लालू यादव के नेतृत्व में कुछ सांसदों ने तनख्वाह को कैबिनेट सेक्रेटरी की तनख्वाह से ज्यादा करने की मांग की है। इससे पहले, केंद्रीय कैबिनेट ने सांसदों की तनख्वाह बढ़ाने से संबंधित बिल को अपनी मंजूरी दे दी है। अब इस बिल को लोकसभा में पेश ... वेतन बढ़ाने की माँग उठाना अनैतिक:आडवाणी वेबदुनिया हिंदी - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ भाजपा संसदीय दल के कार्यकारी अध्यक्ष लालकृष्ण आडवाणी ने संसद के दोनों सदनों में अपनी पार्टी के सदस्यों से कहा कि वेतन में प्रस्तावित बढ़ोतरी पर अपने विचार सार्वजनिक तौर पर नहीं रखें क्योंकि सांसदों द्वारा अपना ही वेतन बढ़ाने की माँग उठाना अनैतिक है। आडवाणी ने आज संसदीय दल की साप्ताहिक बैठक में कहा कि सांसदों को अपने वेतन भत्ते बढ़ाने के मुद्दे पर मीडिया के सामने नहीं बोलना चाहिए या सार्वजनिक तौर पर विचार नहीं रखने ... लालू ने तन्ख्वाह बढ़ाने की मांग की! दैनिक भास्कर - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ पटना। सरकार ने मंगलवार को कहा कि वह सांसदों के वेतन में 300 प्रतिशत की बढ़ोतरी करने के लिए संसद के मौजूदा सत्र में एक विधेयक लाने की कोशिश की। लेकिन राष्ट्रीय जनता दल के अध्यक्ष लालू प्रसाद के नेतृत्व में कई पार्टीयों के सदस्यों ने इस मुद्दे पर लोक सभा की कार्यवाही स्थगित करने के लिए मजबूर कर दिया। दूसरी ओर माक्रसवादी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी और भारतीय जनता पार्टी ने सांसदों द्वारा खुद से अपना वेतन तय किए जाने का विरोध किया। ... सांसदों के वेतन वृद्धि को मंजूरी, बेसिक सैलरी बढ़कर 50 हजार होगी आज तक - ‎१९-०८-२०१०‎ केंद्रीय कैबिनेट ने सांसदों का वेतन बढ़ाकर 50 हजार रुपये करने को मंजूरी दे दी है. वेतन बढ़ाए जाने की सांसदों की मांग पर वित्त मंत्री प्रणव मुखर्जी ने कहा कि सरकार संसद के इसी सत्र में एक विधेयक लाने का प्रयास कर रही है. राजनीतिक दलों के सदस्यों द्वारा लगातार सांसदों का वेतन बढ़ाए जाने की मांग हो रही थी. सांसदों के वेतन और भत्ते संबंधी अधिनियम 1954 में संशोधन का प्रस्ताव था. बढ़े हुए वेतन 15वीं लोकसभा से लागू होंगे. ... सांसदों की तनख्वाह में होगी तीन गुना बढोतरी! खास खबर - ‎१५-०८-२०१०‎ नई दिल्ली। आम आदमी जहां आज बढती महंगाई के बोझ तले निरंतर दबता जा रहा है वहीं हमारे सांसदों पर सरकार मेहरबान हो रही है। केंद्रीय कैबिनेट आज सांसदों की तनख्वाह तीन गुना किए जाने के फैसले पर मुहर लगा सकती है। इस बढोतरी के बाद सासंदों की तनख्वाह करीब 50 हजार रूपए हो जाएगी। सांसदों का दैनिक भत्ता भी एक हजार रूपये से बढकर दो हजार रूपये हो जाएगा। इस बढोतरी का फायदा 795 सांसदों को मिलेगा। इसमें 545 लोकसभा के और 250 राज्यसभा के सासंद ... माकपा ने सांसदों की वेतन वृद्धि के प्रस्ताव का विरोध किया खास खबर - ‎१७-०८-२०१०‎ नई दिल्ली। माक्र्सवादी कम्युनिस्ट पाटी (माकपा) ने सांसदों की वेतन वृद्धि के प्रस्ताव का विरोध करते हुए रविवार को कहा कि सांसद स्वयं अपने वेतन में वृद्धि का फैसला नहीं ले सकते। इस काम के लिए अन्य तंत्र स्थापित किया जाना चाहिए। माकपा नेता सीताराम येचुरी ने कहा कि सरकार ने वर्ष 2006 में सांसदों की वेतन वृद्धि का फैसला लेने के लिए अलग तंत्र स्थापित करने का वादा किया था लेकिन इस पर अब तक कोई फैसला नहीं लिया गया है। येचुरी ने कहा ... सांसदों का वेतन बढ़ाने का फैसला टला डी-डब्लू वर्ल्ड - 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It falls short of the Rs. 80,001 recommended by a joint parliamentary committee

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EXCHANGING NOTES: RJD president Lalu Prasad (right) and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh share views outside the Parliament House complex in New Delhi on Friday after the Cabinet cleared a 300 percent salary hike for MPs.

NEW DELHI: Hours after the Union Cabinet on Friday cleared a 300 per cent salary hike, from Rs. 16,000 to Rs. 50,000, for members of Parliament and doubled their perks, they appeared to be a dissatisfied lot and stalled the Lok Sabha proceedings thrice during the day, demanding more money.

Though the Cabinet, which met here under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the Bill seeking a three-fold increase in the basic salary of MPs, it fell short of the Rs. 80,001 recommended by a joint parliamentary committee, which stated that an MP should get at least Re. 1 more than the top Central government bureaucrats.

This was enough to trigger an uproar and protests in the House by members of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Akali Dal, the Janata Dal (United), the Shiv Sena and the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Besides salary, an MP gets an allowance of Rs.1,000 for each day the Parliament is in session or for taking part in House committee meetings. This has been doubled. A member is also entitled to a constituency allowance of Rs.20,000 a month and an office expense allowance of Rs.20,000 a month. These perks have also been doubled.

The increase will be given with retrospective effect from May 2009, when the 15th Lok Sabha was constituted. However, the increase will be implemented when the Bill seeking amendment to the Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament Act, 1954, is brought in Parliament and passed by both the Houses.

The protest was led by RJD chief Lalu Prasad and SP president Mulayam Singh, who termed the hike "minimal," and demanded that the proposed increase by the Cabinet be taken back and recommendations of the parliamentary panel implemented. They barged into the well of the House, raising slogans. Mr. Prasad charged the government with "insulting the MPs with minimal raise."

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21 Aug, 2010, 02.20AM IST,ET Bureau

The poor rich Indian MPs

MPs in general are rich, endowed by flourishing business interests or hereditary handovers. The Association for Democratic Reforms, an NGO that works towards strengthening democracy and governance, says there are 315 crorepatis — persons whose net worth exceeds Rs 1 crore — in the 543-member Lok Sabha. Further, the average asset holding of the members of the Lower House is Rs 5.33 crore. Mind you, this is just the calculation based on disclosed assets, which are often not exhaustive —or even, the colour of the majority of assets — that MPs own. Whatever the party or state, barring some exceptions, the prevalence of wealth among MPs is universal.

Crorepati MPs

Of the 543 MPs in Lok Sabha 2009, 315 — or 58% — are crorepatis. This is nearly double the crorepatis in the 2004 batch. Further, the average declared assets of an MP in Lok Sabha 2009 is 186% higher than the 2004 average.

Assets of re-contesting MP

MPs tend to do well with their personal wealth when in office. The average assets of 304 MPs who re-contested in 2009, and whose asset details were available for 2004 and 2009, have increased by 289% during this period.

Crorepati MPs: By party

Wealth is not the preserve of candidates from a certain party. Seven of 10 MPs from the Congress are crorepatis. As is every second BJP MP. The two parties whose candidates show a lower disposition towards declared wealth are both based in Bengal: the CPI (M) and the Trinamool.

Crorepati MPs: State-wise

There seems to be some correlation between the prosperity of a state and the prosperity of its representatives. At one end, all the MPs from Punjab are crorepatis. At the other, the Communist states – Kerala and West Bengal – show the lowest presence of crorepati MPs.

Average assets per MP of various parties

Regional parties occupy both ends of the wealth continuum. Some of them have extremely wealthy MPs, some of them not so much. Among national parties, the average assets of a BJP MP are nearly half that of a Congress MP.

Average assets per MP from various states

It's a big divide: the average declared assets across states varies from 12 lakh (Andaman & Nicobar) to Rs 18 crore (Haryana). MPs from north-eastern states have the lowest declared wealth.

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21 Aug, 2010, 01.35AM IST,PTI

After hike, Indian MPs still get a thirteenth of US lawmakers

NEW DELHI: Even after a three-fold pay hike, Indian MPs still rank much below their fellow parliamentarians in major countries in terms of their monthly salaries.

With the Cabinet today giving its nod to the MPs' pay rise besides doubling several other emoluments, the basic monthly salary of Indian lawmakers has now gone up to Rs 50,000 from Rs 16,000.

However, the new salary component, excluding perks and other allowances, is not on a par with the monthly emoluments their counterparts in other major economies are drawing at present.

For example, the current salary for all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives in the US is USD 174,000 per annum, or USD 14,500 per month. If converted into Indian currency, the monthly salary of a US lawmaker becomes Rs 675,203, which is more than 13 times the new salary of an Indian MP.

When compared with the monthly pay of a Canadian MP, the new salary of Indian MPs is almost 11 times lower, while it is eight times lower than that of British lawmakers.

A member of Canada's House of Commons is currently drawing USD 12,611 as salary per month while it is 5,478 pounds or Rs 399,941 for a British parliamentarian.



According to the Australian government's website, the base salary of a MP in that country is about USD 118,000 per annum or USD 9,833 per month.

Similarly, a member of Japanese Parliament (Diet) gets about 1.3 million yen, or USD 15,200, every month. The net monthly pay of a MP in Singapore is 13,710 Singapore dollars, or Rs 471,364.

The monthly salaries of lawmakers in France, Italy, Germany and Spain are EUR 7,002, EUR 5,487, EUR 7,688 and EUR 3,126 respectively.

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20 Aug, 2010, 12.34AM IST,PTI

Three-fold salary hike for MPs approved

NEW DELHI: The basic pay of Members of Parliament was today hiked by more than three times from Rs 16,000 to Rs 50,000 by the government which also doubled several other emoluments for them.

Ending speculation about a delay in the pay hike of MPs due to differences among ministers on the issue, the Cabinet gave its nod to hiking the basic pay from Rs 16,000 to Rs 50,000 per month.

However, this is much less than the figure of Rs 80,001 recommended by the parliamentary committee which had said the MPs should get more than government secretaries as the former are above them in the hierarchy.

The government also increased office expenses of parliamentarians from Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 per month. The constituency allowance has also been doubled from Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 per month, government sources said.

The limit for interest-free loan for MPs for buying a personal vehicle has been hiked four-fold to Rs 4 lakh from the present Rs 1 lakh.

The government has also hiked road mileage rate for vehicles used by MPs from Rs 13 per km to Rs 16 per km.

Spouse of a parliamentarian can now travel any number of times in first class or executive class, the sources said.

Pension benefits have also been increased from Rs 8,000 to Rs 20,000 per month.

20 Aug, 2010, 06.40PM IST,IANS

How much an MP will now get?

NEW DELHI: The following is the summary of monetary benefits MPs are entitled to as salary and other perks which were Friday proposed to be hiked manifold.

Each MP gets:

- Basic salary of Rs 16,000. The salary has been hiked by 300 percent as proposed by the cabinet.

- Daily allowance of Rs 1,000 for each day when parliament is in session or taking part in house committee meetings. This has been doubled.

- Constituency allowance of Rs 20,000 a month. This has been doubled.

- Office expense allowance of Rs 20,000 each month. Also doubled.

- Conveyance allowance of Rs 1 lakh, which has gone up to Rs 4 lakh now.

- Spouses of MPs get free train travel from their place of residence to Delhi. They also get up to eight free plane tickets from their place of residence to Delhi.
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19 Aug, 2010, 03.34AM IST,ET Bureau

Bhopal case: US Deputy NSA warns of chill in investment

NEW DELHI: The US appears to be piling pressure on the Manmohan Singh government for providing relief to Dow Chemicals. In an e-mail to Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, US deputy National Security Advisor Michael Froman, warned that India's emphasis on Dow could have "a chilling effect on the investment relationship" between the two countries.

Mr Froman wrote this on July 30 in reply to an e-mail from Mr Ahluwalia seeking US support for borrowing from World Bank. "We are hearing a lot of noise about the Dow Chemicals issue. I trust that you are monitoring it carefully. I am not familiar with all the details. But I think we want to avoid developments which put a chilling effect on the investment relationship," Mr Froman wrote in the e-mail to Mr Ahluwalia. In other words, New Delhi, which seeks US help, should be sensitive to its concerns.

In his e-mail to Mr Froman, Mr Ahluwalia had sought American help at the World Bank meeting. "I wonder if I can enlist your help on a matter relating to India's borrowing from the World Bank. We are about to hit the arbitrary single borrower limit in IBRD which forces IBRD to cut new lending to India drastically unless the limit is relaxed. You may remember I had mentioned this as an issue when we discussed the IBRD capital increase in G-20. The matter is coming up in the IBRD board audit committee on Monday. The US is a member. The management wants a relaxation for India. The British prime minister was in Delhi yesterday. We raised it with him and he said that the UK ED would be instructed to support us. Could you speak to treasury to get the US ED on our side? At a time when countries are graduated out of soft assistance, it is normal to switch them to IBRD. But we are faced with a sharp reduction...Larry will fully understand. Hope you can help," Mr Ahluwalia had said in his mail to Mr Froman.

In a subsequent communication, Mr Ahluwalia briefed Mr Pulok Chatterjee, ED at World Bank, about Mr Froman's demand to go soft on Dow. While agreeing that quid pro quos are not unknown, he conceded that meeting the demand on Dow could be difficult. "There is always a quid pro quo though I fear on this we are helpless," Mr Ahluwalia wrote to Mr Chatterjee on July 30. ET is possession of the copies of the e-mail.

In 1999, Dow bought Union Carbide, whose pesticide plant in Bhopal leaked a poisonous gas which has killed more than 15,000 people. The Madhya Pradesh high court is considering a suggestion that Dow should be made to deposit `100 crore to fund the removal of the tons of toxic waste that still lie in and around the Carbide plant.
19 Aug, 2010, 03.34AM IST,TNN

US nudges India to go easy on Dow Chemicals

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the November visit of President Barack Obama, US has stepped up efforts to push India to drop its demand on Dow Chemicals for Rs 1,500 crore compensation for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.

Senior government sources said that almost at every level, US officials were telling the Indian government to "resolve it and move ahead".

On Wednesday, Times Now, in an exclusive report, said US deputy NSA Michael Froman wrote to Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of Planning Commission, in an email that the "noise" in India over Dow Chemicals could have a "chilling effect" on the India-US investment relationship.

Froman's email came as a response to a request by Ahluwalia for US help in getting India access to more World Bank loans for development. India is the world's biggest recipient of World Bank loans and would be reaching the single borrower limit beyond which it is difficult to access more funds.

In response to this request, Froman said in an email dated July 30, "We are aware of this issue and we will look into it. While I've got you, we are hearing a lot of noise about the Dow Chemicals issue. I trust that you are monitoring it carefully. I am not familiar with all the details, but I think we want to avoid developments which put a chilling effect on our investment relationship."

Apart from the compensation package, the US chemical giant must also be apprehensive of the insistence of the group of ministers on Bhopal tragedy that the polluter must pay for the clean-up of the site of the Union Carbide gas plant in Bhopal and the neighbouring areas.

Dow Chemicals, which took over the US-based Union Carbide Corporation in 2001, claims that it owes no liability for the Bhopal tragedy. It says that the incident happened much before it took over UCC. It also points out that the Indian operations of UCC had been sold off before they took over the US-based parent company.

However, the Indian government's demand for compensation marks a rejection of Dow Chemicals' plea. As does the government's decision to make Dow Chemicals a respondent in existing cases in various courts related to the liability for decontamination of the Bhopal site.

US's activism jars with the anger in India over the denial of justice to the victims of the gas tragedy. "It's typical US short-sightedness," said officials when questioned. No Indian government, they said, can ignore sentiment on such an issue which has been hanging fire for almost a quarter of a century. There is no question of India giving in to the US, they said.

The email exchange between Ahluwalia and Froman occurred two days before India's case with the IBRD was scheduled to come up in World Bank. In the email, Ahluwalia said that while New Delhi enjoys UK's support, it would also need help from US, which is a member of the World Bank audit committee. Ahluwalia said, "The management wants a relaxation for India. Could you speak to the Treasury to get the US ED on our side? At a time when countries are graduated out of soft assistances it is normal to switch them to IBRD. But we are faced with a sharp reduction."

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State MPs get pay hike, more fuel

TNN, Aug 21, 2010, 04.37am IST

BANGALORE: Parliamentarians from Karnataka have a reason to cheer. Apart from the proposed three-fold hike in their salaries mooted by the Centre, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has heeded to their long-pending demand to hike monthly fuel allowances from the present 300 litres to 500.

This will roughly translate to Rs 25,000 per month for them to tour their constituencies. Though members are elected to the Lok Sabha, respective state governments take care of some perks such as providing cars and fuel.

"We were planning to hike fuel allowance long ago but it was deferred last year because of unprecedented floods in north Karnataka. Now, we are ready to provide 500 litres of petrol per month to each MP against the existing 300 litres," Yeddyurappa said after inaugurating the newly constructed Karnataka Bhavan annexe building on Thursday in New Delhi.

Prior to the function, the state MPs, mostly from BJP, met Yeddyurappa and placed the long-pending proposal before him.

Dharwad MP Prahlad Joshi, who was part of the delegation, said it is always a constraint for MPs to travel more often and carry out development activities in their respective constituencies when the government does not give them enough fuel allowance. "The constituents are aware of this challenge and they are also looking forward to the day when the government will start giving us fuel allowances. It is not just fuel allowance; there are several things that we require to work effectively in our constituencies," Joshi said.

Sources said the state government also provides cars for MPs to travel in and around New Delhi. This is besides the allowances that MPs receive from the central government as salary, perks and other facilities.

However, some MPs are still not convinced. A senior MP said: "Yeddyurappa has been giving such unfulfilled assurances for a long time. We are skeptical of this assurance too."

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NEW DELHI: Ahead of the November visit of President Barack Obama, US has stepped up efforts to push India to drop its demand on Dow Chemicals for Rs 1,500 crore compensation for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.

Senior government sources said that almost at every level, US officials were telling the Indian government to "resolve it and move ahead".

On Wednesday, Times Now, in an exclusive report, said US deputy NSA Michael Froman wrote to Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of Planning Commission, in an email that the "noise" in India over Dow Chemicals could have a "chilling effect" on the India-US investment relationship.

Froman's email came as a response to a request by Ahluwalia for US help in getting India access to more World Bank loans for development. India is the world's biggest recipient of World Bank loans and would be reaching the single borrower limit beyond which it is difficult to access more funds.

In response to this request, Froman said in an email dated July 30, "We are aware of this issue and we will look into it. While I've got you, we are hearing a lot of noise about the Dow Chemicals issue. I trust that you are monitoring it carefully. I am not familiar with all the details, but I think we want to avoid developments which put a chilling effect on our investment relationship."

Apart from the compensation package, the US chemical giant must also be apprehensive of the insistence of the group of ministers on Bhopal tragedy that the polluter must pay for the clean-up of the site of the Union Carbide gas plant in Bhopal and the neighbouring areas.

Dow Chemicals, which took over the US-based Union Carbide Corporation in 2001, claims that it owes no liability for the Bhopal tragedy. It says that the incident happened much before it took over UCC. It also points out that the Indian operations of UCC had been sold off before they took over the US-based parent company.

However, the Indian government's demand for compensation marks a rejection of Dow Chemicals' plea. As does the government's decision to make Dow Chemicals a respondent in existing cases in various courts related to the liability for decontamination of the Bhopal site.

US's activism jars with the anger in India over the denial of justice to the victims of the gas tragedy. "It's typical US short-sightedness," said officials when questioned. No Indian government, they said, can ignore sentiment on such an issue which has been hanging fire for almost a quarter of a century. There is no question of India giving in to the US, they said.

The email exchange between Ahluwalia and Froman occurred two days before India's case with the IBRD was scheduled to come up in World Bank. In the email, Ahluwalia said that while New Delhi enjoys UK's support, it would also need help from US, which is a member of the World Bank audit committee. Ahluwalia said, "The management wants a relaxation for India. Could you speak to the Treasury to get the US ED on our side? At a time when countries are graduated out of soft assistances it is normal to switch them to IBRD. But we are faced with a sharp reduction."

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So, there's no harm revisiting the subject since most MPs want a bigger hike," a cabinet minister who didn't wish to be named told The Telegraph.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     MPs' yearly pay is now Rs 21.8 lakh, even leaving out various allowances, putting them in the top 3 to 5 per cent of the population in earnings. All the allowances are tax-free.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The cabinet apparently didn't go for a higher raise because that could put off the price rise-hit voters. Last year, the Centre had junked a plan to hike MPs' salaries after Sonia Gandhi asked her ministers and MPs to take a 20 per cent pay cut because of a drought threat and grim economic outlook                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Mamata Banerjee was a rare voice today, ridiculing the idea of a larger hike. "If I were to take the decision, I'd have reduced it further," she said.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     She recalled: "When I was elected the first time in 1984, the salary was just Rs 1,500. I could hardly afford Delhi prices, so I often brought rice and vegetables from Calcutta when I attended House sessions."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     *                                                                                                 Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee seemed to hint that no further increase was likely as he gave the main details of the hike to the media. (See chart)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     He said an MP now got at least 10 days' allowance a month even when Parliament was not in session. "Whenever an MP comes for a (House) committee meeting, he gets two days' daily allowance before the meeting and (that) for another two days after the meeting," Pranab said.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Many Congress MPs, however, had egged Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav on as they pushed for a bigger raise. Later, a BJP member was heard telling them: "What you two did needs guts. You're our hero."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     BJP members, though, did not join the protest on L.K. Advani's advice that they should keep the public mood in mind.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The Congress was divided, many MPs saying even Rs 80,000 wasn't enough. A Delhi MP said: "In the past month, I received 6,000 guests from my constituency. I offer tea and water; even snacks to some important people. You can calculate the expenses."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Even Congress MP Sanjay Singh, a royal, backed the Rs 80,000 demand saying: "We have to spend Rs 30,000 on tea alone."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     It isn't as though most MPs have no other sources of income. A non-government poll watchdog had last year counted 300 crorepatis among the Lok Sabha's 543 members. Some industrialist Rajya Sabha MPs are even wealthier.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Yet, till 1984, an MP's monthly salary was Rs 500 and his daily allowance Rs 51 — far less than a deputy collector's pay. The salary was raised to Rs 1,500 in 1985, to Rs 4,000 in 1998, to Rs 12,000 in 2001 and to Rs 16,000 in 2006.

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Hours after the union cabinet approved a three-fold hike in salaries of Members of Parliament (MPs), MPs other than those from the Congress, BJP and the Left got the Lok Sabha repeatedly adjourned demanding a salary not less than that of a secretary to the government of India. The bill concerned is

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likely to be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Saturday.
A secretary in the government gets R80,000 a month. The three-fold hike for MPs leaves them well short of that — at R50,000, up from R16,000 a month.
Added to this are constituency and office allowances, which have been doubled to R40,000 each a month. In all, a MP would get around R1.45 lakh per month including salary and allowances (see graphic), once Parliament approves the changes.
The money is less than what MPs get in a month in countries such as Singapore, US, Canada and in the European Parliament, whose per capita income is 12-20 times higher than India.
In Singapore, an MP gets R6.18 lakh a month (converted into Indian currency).
"This salary (R50,000) is an insult to Parliament," said Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)chief Lalu Prasad in the House, contending the government had rejected the recommendations of its  own committee.
Soon after the Lok Sabha started business, MPs led by Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and Prasad were on their feet rejecting the cabinet decision and demanding a minimum salary of R80,001.
Amid the pandemonium, the Lok Sabha approved amendments in two laws without any discussion.
The cabinet had decided to defer the issue on Monday when ministers Ambika Soni and Vyalar Ravi said it would not be "appropriate" to raise the salary of MPs when people were reeling under high inflation, but intense pressure from non-BJP, non-Left MPs, including some from Congress, forced the government to approve the salary hike. The last increase in MPs' salaries was in 2006 when it went up from R4,000 to R16,000 a month.
According to information provided by MPs during 2009 elections, the average assets of a Lok Sabha MP is R4.5 crore, excluding those whose assets are more than R100 crore.
"The demand for such a huge salary hike is not justified," said Anil Bairwal, national coordinator of Association for Democratic Reforms.

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The story of 'Slumdog Millionaire' decoded

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Jaimini Mehta

Posted: Feb 17, 2009 at 1611 hrs IST
The euphoria surrounding the recent success of the film 'Slumdog Millionaire' is mostly centered on its 'rags to riches' storyline. However, a closer examination of the film reveals a far more interesting and deeper epistemological issue of contextual nature of acquisition of knowledge, especially in a multilayered and fragmented society such as India. This is of particular relevance now in light of the Prime Minister's stated objective of moving towards a knowledge economy and knowledge based society.
In the film, the main protagonist, a young boy, born and brought up in Mumbai slums and without any formal schooling, correctly answers all questions in a popular quiz show and subsequently is suspected, by the quiz master, to have won by cheating. Later, in a police lock up and under intense interrogation / torture he insists "but I knew the answers". The film revolves around the story of how he acquired this 'knowledge'. It effectively posits two distinct and different types of rationalities; the Instrumental and the Strategic rationalities. The former is based on truth, while the latter is based upon effectiveness. The two protagonists of the story, the quiz master and the contestant, each represent one side of this knowledge divide. While the quiz is founded on the expectation of truth through instrumental rationality Jamal the contestant uses the strategic rationality effectively. There is here an implicit critique of the pedagogical model of instrumental knowledge unquestioningly followed in our educational system.
To deconstruct this story, we will have to rely upon considerable philosophical and epistemological work done by the German thinker Jurgen Hebermas and his thesis of "Communicative Rationality". Rejecting the 'objective reason' as the first, and immutable, principle of much of the Western philosophy, which advanced positivist separation of knowledge and value , Habermas, through a critical appropriation of Weber's analysis, modifies and develops Weber's "largely unclarified concept of rationality. His starting point is the two basic models of Weber's theory of action: the monological and the social, which represent the official and unofficial versions of his typology. Habermas argues that the two Weberian versions represent two clearly distinct frames of social action, in which distinct forms of rationality are developed: one, which equates rationality with a purposive activity of a means/end relationship. Within this frame only a formal sort of rationality could be developed. Thus, it restricts the concept of rationality itself. And two, a rationality based on communication and understanding. At this point, Habermas attempts to expand the concept of reason, and he legitimatizes the functions of its distinct forms. Furthermore, he indicates and describes the forms of rationality that Weber regards as derivatives. Thus, he makes an essential distinction between a rational action that is orientated towards success, such as winning a quiz, and a rational action that aims at reaching understanding.
Rationality is a disposition expressed in behavior for which there are good reasons. These reasons can be arrived at by a rigorous application of inductive or deductive logic as we are taught in our schools. It assumes reason as the 'First Principle" transcending the messy variations of societies and cultures. This rationality operates in a non-social world, which includes "only physical objects and naturally occurring events". This is instrumental rationality aimed at practical goal attained by precise calculations of adequate means. But there is another kind of rationality, as Hebermas, and Weber before him, points out. It is a rationality which implicitly recognizes the social world and is contingent upon the presence of fellow human beings in the context of a given social milieu. This rationality, and the knowledge it engenders, is always contextual. This is communicative rationality; it rests on communication that is "oriented to achieving, sustaining and reviewing consensus - and indeed a consensus that rests on the intersubjective recognition of criticisable validity claims". With this key distinction we shift the emphasis in our concept of rationality from the conceptual to the social.
This is how Jamal 'knew' the answers. Not by acquiring an encyclopedia of information, an essentially linear process of induction/deduction, but by a lateral and existential process of recalling real, concrete events that he has lived through in the context of his own social environment of a slum and with people who has shared those events. His assertion rests on "the intersubjective recognition of criticisable validity claims", which are accepted by a police officer who, due to his proximity and exposure to the slum environment, is sympathetic to the values if not actually shares them. Thus Jamal is a rational, and by implication, a knowledgeable person. As Hebermas says, "We call a person rational who interprets the nature of his desires and feelings in the light of culturally established standards of value, but especially if he can adopt a reflective attitude to the very value standards through which desires and feelings are interpreted." Such a person also needs to be 'free from illusions' and self deceptions. Jamal in the film is all of that.
Is validity relative to cultural values? Or, to put it differently, is truth contingent upon its cultural context? Obviously affirmative answers to these questions would unhinge many of the cherished positions of our educational establishment. These positions are founded on an implicit assumption that the emancipation of the underprivileged can be achieved through uniformity of educational inputs which consists of empirical-analytic sciences and a positivist separation of knowledge and value. Opposed to this are the proponents of interpretive knowledge, which they say "... gives richer, thicker, more meaningful descriptions of the world than positivism". However, there is a catch; one can argue that, the 'pluralism' of the interpretive, qualitative rationality masks the fact that some versions of social reality are ... less legitimate than others for reasons having nothing to do with their truth, beauty, or goodness, such as social relations of domination and oppression. Thus, interpretation, on the one hand, creates possibilities for alternative descriptions of the social reality but, on the other, cannot evaluate these possibilities. It simply represents subjective and sectional descriptions or opinions.
Here again Hebermas provides a way out. His ideas go beyond the objectified monological knowledge or the subjective interpretation of the social reality. They go beyond the 'technical' or 'practical' interests, in order to satisfy a new kind of interest - the emancipatory interest. This is a core concept of the critical social sciences and critical pedagogy as well. However, Habermas makes it clear that this particular kind of interest incorporates both "technical" and "practical" interests that respectively define cognitive-instrumental/strategic and moral-practical rationalities.
According to Habermas , the emancipatory interest, through self-reflection, provides possibilities for a) the transformation of the "ideologically frozen forms of dependence" which confirms the extant power relations, and b) for a critique of the subjective conditions of knowledge, "where reason can self-reflexively come to grasp the universal and necessary conditions" of knowledge. This second possibility provides universal standards, in order to liberate the subject from his/her subjective interests. It obviously attempts to provide validity and evaluative criteria. This is of particular interest to us in India as in recent times "knowledge with values" has acquired a menacing sectarian meaning. Thus, by introducing the notion of "universal standards" Habermas' writings legitimatize human interests while at the same time, attempt to restrict their distortive functions.
The story of "Slumdog Millionaire", as depicted in the film, is more about emancipation that about rags to riches. This is achieved through rationality and knowledge which are outside the school knowledge. In fact, it reveals the epistemological gap that exists between school knowledge and everyday knowledge. The former aims at Context-independent meanings that are related to knowledge/activities of an esoteric domain, while the later aims at Context-dependent meanings that are related to knowledge/activities of a public domain. More concretely, communicative rationality re-locates the distinction/relationship between school knowledge, (more abstract forms of knowledge with a high degree of discursive saturation) and everyday knowledge of the public domain (more concrete forms of knowledge with a low degree of discursive saturation). Within this context, the negligence of the official school knowledge to the everyday life experiences possibly marginalizes under-privileged children. These children are never involved in the particular kind of knowledge/activities of the esoteric domain that the contemporary pedagogic device imposes and then evaluates. This point is crucial and indicates the importance of the process of construction of school knowledge.
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AFSPA to stay, but forces will show maximum restraint: Omar

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Arun Sharma

Posted: Aug 18, 2010 at 1638 hrs IST
Jammu Ruling out the question of revoking the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) at this point of time, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday that he has asked security forces to exercise "maximum restraint'' so as to avoid civilian casualties.
Talking to the media during his day-long visit to Jammu city today, Omar said: "There is no question of the AFSPA getting revoked at this point of time. We are looking, however, to remove certain areas from the purview of this Act since militancy has become a thing of the past. We are looking to identify such areas both within Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley.''
�gAt the same time, we are also pursuing with Delhi the possibility of amending AFSPA by taking out draconian components so as to make it a humane Act. This is an ongoing process,'' he added.
Referring to the cycle of violence going on in the Valley for the last one and a half months, he said: "I have given strict instructions to my security forces to exercise maximum restraint while dealing with crowds so that there is no loss of life. Over a period of time when there is no loss of life, people will gradually switch to normalcy,'' he added.
When asked about militants being present among the stone-pelting crowds and opening fire on security forces, Omar said: "I have asked them to exercise restraint even if the crowd opens fire. It is most likely they may even hit a civilian who is not carrying arms."
�gThe situation in Kashmir has been a matter of concern for all of us and the government is making all efforts to restore law and order and normalcy," he added.
About the National Conference's demand for autonomy to the state, the chief minister ruled out any amendment in its autonomy document. However, making it clear that the party is not taking an extreme position on it as well, he said this was only the starting point for them for holding talks with the Centre. "Let us begin talks and, during the course of it, see what can be mutually agreeable,'' he said.
Omar also made it clear that it was not feasible to pursue the single-track of autonomy with the Centre. He said: "It was more important to look at internal autonomy within the regions and sub regions so as to dispel any impression between regions of getting discriminated at the hands of each other,'' he said, adding that this can be possible only with the devolution of powers between them as soon as possible. "A beginning in this direction can be done with the holding of Panchayat elections followed by local body polls in the state,'' he pointed out.
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ONGC may snatch Cairn's R'sthan fields

State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) may seek management control of the giant Rajasthan oilfields in lieu of allowing UK's Cairn Energy to sell majority stake in its Indian arm that now operates the field, to a non-oil firm, Vedanta Resources for USD 8.48 billion.
Cairn India with 70 per cent interest is the operator of the 6.5 billion barrels Rajasthan block that can produce 240,000 barrels of crude oil per day, equivalent to output from ONGC's prime Mumbai High fields.
ONGC holds 30 per cent interest and pre-emption or right of first refusal (ROFR) in case Cairn was to exit Rajasthan assets.
Industry sources said today that though the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for the Rajasthan block was silent on prior government approval in case of transfer of ownership of a company having stake in the block, ONGC believes its rights flow from joint operating agreement (JOA) for the field that provides for ROFR.
The oil ministry too is keen to protect the interest of ONGC, which currently is a net loser in the Rajasthan block as it has to pay Cairn's share of royalty on crude oil to the government.
Sources said Petroleum Minister Murli Deora and Oil Secretary S Sundareshan told Cairn Energy Plc Chief Executive Bill Gammell, who came here on a flying visit yesterday, that government approval was central to the Vedanta deal.
They told Gammell that Cairn needs to apply in writing for approval and the government will decide on the case after studying provisions in the PSC and JOA of each of the 10 properties that Cairn India had.
Sources said the ministry was upset that so far only press statements issued by Cairn Energy and Vedanta Resources announcing the deal have been sent to it and no formal approach has been made for seeking clearance.
The ministry insists the deal, wherein Cairn Energy is selling up to 51 per cent out of its 62.37 per cent stake in Cairn India, needs explicit government approval and not just regulatory approvals as mentioned the press releases.
Cairn maintains that the Vedanta deal was a controlling stake transfer and not an asset transfer which would have triggered a government approval but the ministry maintains that since the PSCs for some of the Cairn blocks has provision for prior consent, the whole deal is contingent on government approval, sources said.
While ONGC is not keen on making a counter offer as it sees the Rs 405 per share price being paid by Vedanta as too high, it getting operatorship of the Rajasthan fields together with the government compensating it for the royalty it pays on behalf of Cairn India would make the project viable for it.
Sources said Vedanta's deal was contingent on government approval, as Cairn's three producing oil and gas assets, including the giant Rajasthan fields and seven exploration
blocks, either have explicit provisions for seeking prior approval before transfer of interest or gives pre-emption, or the right of first refusal (ROFR), to partners like ONGC.
The stake sale now offers the government an opportunity to settle the issue of the Rs 14,000 crore loss that ONGC will incur over the life of the Rajasthan oil fields, as it has to pay statutory levies like cess and royalty on behalf of Cairn India.
ONGC has 30 per cent interest in the Rajasthan fields, but has to pay cess and royalty on the entire production, thereby giving negative returns on its investments.
The Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for the Rajasthan field is silent on government approval for transfer of ownership, but the Joint Operating Agreement between Cairn India and ONGC gives the partners ROFR in case of stake sale.
The same is the case with gas discovery block CB-OS-2 and the eastern offshore Ravva oil and gas fields. But its seven exploration blocks, including the KG-DWN-98/2 block with ONGC, have explicit provisions for government approval in case of a change in control.
Cairn India and ONGC are to spend USD 2.67 billion in capital expenditure in the Rajasthan block and USD 1.52 billion in operating expenditure, besides USD 941 million million towards the cost of a pipeline to transport crude oil.
ONGC's Net Present Value (the value today of anticipated future incomes and expenditures) works out to negative USD 1.435 billion and a negative USD 1.471 billion at a crude price of USD 60 and 70 per barrel, respectively, they said.
The negative NPV is a result of ONGC being made liable to pay 20 per cent royalty on the entire crude oil production, while Cairn is exempt from payment of any levy.

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Tennis stars assure participation in Games

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Commonwealth Games have rival in mismanagement

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Games sponsorship money was not compulsory, says Deshmukh

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For Commonwealth Games, kissing is touchy

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Sonia: Let Games finish, guilty won't be spared

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Games ambulances in need of emergency care

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CWG: Fennell, Hooper pushed through dodgy SMAM deal

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OC hires firm for food quality control

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HC tells MCD to relocate slum

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Merchandise delay: OC will resolve issues by next week

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Shoddy preparation a shame, says Randhawa

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NEW DELHI: Already facing flak from all quarters for missing deadlines and corruption charges, the Commonwealth Games got another critic in Jyoti Randhawa. ...
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Archery venue wide off the mark

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A look at the Yamuna Sports Complex (YSC) — which will host the archery preliminaries and table tennis at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) — shows that the ...

'All rooms won't be ready before games'

Hindustan Times - ‎11 hours ago‎
At Friday's meeting of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Commonwealth Games, DDA officials said that of the 3179 upcoming flats in Vasant Kunj, ...
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A paint that will kill mosquitoes

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To prevent mosquitoes from biting athletes and delegates who will be in town to participate in the Commonwealth Games this October, the Municipal ...
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Cover it up!

Hindustan Times - ‎12 hours ago‎
Come September and this host-city for the October Commonwealth Games will start covering some of its slums and garbage dumps with flags and banners bearing ...

SC upholds Delhi govt's land acquisitions

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"We are satisfied that the existence of public purpose and urgency in executing the project before the Commonwealth Games, the adjoining land belonging to ...
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Will Do Credibility Check Before Funding CWG: Mamata

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Railways will do its due diligence about the "credibility" of the some of the Commonwealth Games projects before releasing Rs 100 crore as sponsorship, ...
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Commonwealth Express train to arrive on Aug 25

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The Commonwealth Express train is a special exhibition train designed to promote the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. Director of Kerala State IT Mission and ...
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Scotland name strong games squad

Hindustan Times - ‎Aug 18, 2010‎
While 72-year old legendary bowls player Willie Wood, who will be making a record eighth Commonwealth Games appearance, is the oldest athlete in the ...
Hewitt, Stosur to miss Commonwealth Games AFP
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Past passé, Gagan aims for the gold

Hindustan Times - ‎12 hours ago‎
I have a good track record and I will try and win as many medals as I can," said Gagan, who bagged four gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. ...
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PIL in SC seeks CBI probe into CWG scams

Times of India - ‎7 hours ago‎
... a PIL was filed on Friday seeking a CBI probe into the countless scams tumbling out of the cupboards of organising committee for Commonwealth Games. ...
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R25 cr archery stadium: Is it missing the target?

Hindustan Times - ‎10 hours ago‎
Has the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) built a R25 crore archery stadium that was never needed? The Archery Association of India's (AAI) ...

Latest Games headache: The missing volunteers

Indian Express - ‎19 hours ago‎
People are quitting the Commonwealth Games volunteer programme in hordes. In fact, 80 per cent of those interviewed for the programme are no longer part of ...

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With pay hike, an MP to cost Rs 37L a year Times of India - Atul Thakur - ‎10 hours ago‎ NEW DELHI: Not satisfied with a three-fold hike in their basic salary, many MPs stalled Parliament proceedings on Friday, saying that the "low" hike was an insult to the country's legislators. But do these MPs have a case? TOI did some calculations to ... Cabinet nod trebles salaries for MPs Business Standard - ‎12 hours ago‎ Members of Parliament will now earn around Rs 1.02 lakh a month after the Union Cabinet today gave its consent to a Bill that enhances their salaries and allowances by over 200 per cent. Daily allowances and pensions have also been hiked. ... MPs have right to money, but pay on performance Oneindia - ‎18 hours ago‎ A lot of criticism has bundled against our honourable Members of Parliament (MPs) following the Cabinet's nod to the three-fold salary-hike. While our politicians are fighting for expansion in the quantum of the hike seeking a five-fold hike, ... After hike, Indian MP gets 13 times less pay than US lawmaker Times of India - ‎18 hours ago‎ NEW DELHI: Even after a three-fold pay hike, Indian MPs still rank much below their fellow parliamentarians in major countries in terms of their monthly salaries. With the Cabinet today giving its nod to the MPs' pay rise besides doubling several other ... Govt plans to bring MPs pay hike bill in Parliament tomorrow Hindustan Times - ‎15 hours ago‎ PTI Union Railway Minister and RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav reacts at the debate on nuke deal in the... Notwithstanding opposition from certain parties, government plans to bring the bill enhancing the salaries of MPs in the Lok Sabha on Saturday. ... MP Pay hike to cost Nation Rs 60,00000/MP Times Now.tv - ‎15 hours ago‎ A 300% hike is not enough for our Members of Parliament; now they want it to be 500%. Dissatisfied by the quantum of hike in the salaries approved by the Cabinet, the Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Janata Dal (United) stalled proceedings ... MPs get a raise: Salaries increase three fold Financial Express - ‎10 hours ago‎ New Delhi: Salaries of members of Parliament (MPs) will be raised by more than three times with the Union cabinet on Friday approving a Bill which raised their basic pay from Rs 16000 to Rs 50000 a month. However, this is much less than the Rs 80000 a ... How much an MP will now get? Economic Times - ‎17 hours ago‎ NEW DELHI: The following is the summary of monetary benefits MPs are entitled to as salary and other perks which were Friday proposed to be hiked manifold. - Basic salary of Rs 16000. The salary has been hiked by 300 percent as proposed by the cabinet. ... Split Cabinet defers salary hike for MPs Times of India - ‎Aug 16, 2010‎ NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Monday put off a decision on raising salaries of MPs three-fold, fearing that the hike for lawmakers may not go down well with a population grappling with hardships. The issue, which looked sealed because of the ... Adjournment over MPs' salaries not a good signal: Cong The Hindu - ‎Aug 17, 2010‎ PTI Congress on Tuesday hit out at the Opposition for forcing adjournment of the Lok Sabha over MPs' salaries on which the Cabinet has deferred a decision, saying it did not send out a proper signal to the nation. "I do not think it is an issue which ... All 85 related articles »

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