Recently Indian Government has hiked the salary for our Members of parliament. The salary hike is quite significant. It is Good or bad , well we all should be generous enough to wish all the best for others welfare. My concern is anywhere in the world wages are connected to the performance. Any individual gets his or her wages based on there performance. My question is who will justify whether the wages of our honorary Parliamentarians is in line of there performance.
How does public knows what kind of performance our law makers are giving. Is there any white paper on this issue. The situation in our country is pathetic. billions of rupees are spent on our law makers but there is no system of public audit whether the money spent is worth it. Any Indian working in private enterprises gets his wage increment based on the output he or she produced in the financial year. Then why the system should not be followed for our dear members of parliament.
first of all there has to be a performance review parameters for all the law makers. In any particular constituencies there has to be measuring parameters which should define the growth in public work in a particular financial year. There are whole lot of public works. Public Health , public security, power generation , Roads, water supply , public distribution system these are some areas on which growth can be measured.
Government has to devise a system of evaluating the performance of all the government employees including law makers. If they go on increasing the wages without any measuring tool to evaluate the performance then there will be utter despair in the minds of every citizen of this country. Already most of the citizens feel that the ministers are elite class & they are enjoying luxuries of life without executing there task in competent manner. This kind of situation gradually becomes the origin for revolt which ultimately destroys the utter foundation of democracy.
