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No. 1686, CUTTACK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 / BHADRA 15, 1940

SECRETARIAT

OF

THE ODISHA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

NOTIFICATION

The 5th September, 2018

No.8385/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 MINISTERS’ SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES (SECOND AMENDMENT)

BILL, 2018

A

BILL

FURTHER TO AMEND THE ODISHA MINISTERS’ SALARIES AN

ALLOWANCES ACT, 1952.

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 Ministers’ Salaries and

Allowances (Second Amendment) Act, 2018.

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

April, 2018.

Amendment of

section 5.

2. In the Odisha Ministers' Salaries and Allowances Act, 1952, in

section 5, for the words "one hundred rupees per mensem" the

words "one thousand rupees per day" shall be substituted.

Odisha Act

20 of 1952.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

The Members of Odisha Legislative Assembly are entitled to

accommodation allowance of one thousand rupees per day till allotment of

Government quarters. But the members of council of Ministers have been

drawing House Rent Allowances at the rate of one hundred rupees per

mensem till allotment of the quarters,

Keeping in view the disparity, the House Rent Allowance admissible to

Minister has been raised fromone hundred rupees per mensem to one

thousand rupees per day till allotment of Government quarters at par with the

accommodation allowance admissible to Members of the OLA. This

expenditure is one time during the formation of new Government.

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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