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No. 1685, CUTTACK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 / BHADRA 15, 1940

SECRETARIAT

OF

THE ODISHA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

NOTIFICATION

The 5th September, 2018

No.8383/L.A.—The following Bill which has been introduced in the Odisha

Legislative Assembly on the 5th September, 2018 is herewith published under

Rule 68 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Odisha

Legislative Assembly for general information.

THE ODISHA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY MEMBERS’

SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND PENSION (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2018

A

BILL

FURTHER TO AMEND THE ODISHA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

MEMBERS’ SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND PENSION ACT, 1954.

BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Odisha

in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Short title and

commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Odisha Legislative

Assembly Members’ Salary, Allowances and Pension

(Amendment) Act, 2018.

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(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1^st

day of April, 2018. .

Amendment of

section 4-B.

2. In the Odisha Legislative Assembly Members' Salary,

Allowances and Pension Act, 1954, in section 4-B, -

(i) for the marginal heading, the following marginal heading

shall be substituted, namely:-

" Pension and allowance. " ; and

(ii) after sub-section (5), the following sub-section shall be

inserted , namely:-

" (6) There shall be paid Medical allowance at the

rate of two thousand rupees per month to every

Ex-member of the Assembly."

Odisha Act

19 of 1954.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Members of the Odisha Legislative Assembly are entitled to medical

allowance at the rate of five thousand rupees per mensem in order to meet their

day to day treatment. But, there is no provision of medical allowance for the ex-

members even if they are vulnerable to many kinds of old-age related diseases.

Keeping in view the genuine cause of the ex-members of the Odisha Legislative

Assembly, a new provision has been made for payment of medical allowance at

the rate of two thousand rupees per month to Ex- Member to meet the

expenditure of their medical treatment.

The Bill seeks to achieve the above objectives.

(BIKRAM KESHARI ARUKHA)

Member-in-Charge

A.K. SARANGI

Secretary

Odisha Legislative Assembly

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