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Tamil Nadu MLAs get 100 per cent double salary hike

| | Jul 19, 2017, at 09:11 pm
Chennai, Jul 19 (IBNS) : Tamil Nadu legislators on Wednesday approved for themselves a 100 per cent salary hike for a monthly pay packet of Rs. 1.05 lakh, media reports said.

Previously the salary the MLAs used to get was Rs. 55,000 per month.

The announcement regarding salary hike was made by CM E Palaniswami in the state Assembly.

This comes at a time when farmers of the state have been on prolonged protests to press for the demand of loan waiver.

The farmers have already demonstrated in Delhi's Jantar Mantar deanding  a Rs 40,000 crore drought relief package, farm loan waiver and setting up of the Cauvery Management Board by the Centre.

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