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<ul><li>Maharashtra Cabinet approved a proposal to cut MLA salaries by 30% for a year. </li><li>This decision came after the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh passed a resolution suspending the MLAs fund for one year. </li><li>Maharashtra is the epicenter of the disease with 1135 Coronavirus positive cases — with 72 deaths, as on April 9. </li></ul>Maharashtra Cabinet approved a proposal for 30% salary cut for all Members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) for a year today. This pay cut will be applicable from the month of April and there are as many as 288 MLAs in the state. This decision came after the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh passed a resolution suspending the MLAs fund for one year. This will help them add ₹1,500 crore for Covid-19 fund. Earlier this month, Maharashtra along with Telangana, Odisha, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh announced pay cuts for government employees to back up the state economies amid the Coronavirus outbreak. Maharashtra's deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar then said that the state government employees — including the Chief Minister, MLAs and members of state legislative council — will have to forfeit 60% of their salaries in March in view of the global pandemic. "The salaries of Class I and II will be cut by 50% while that of Class III employees will be cut by 25%. There will be no cut in the salaries of remaining classes in the state bureaucracy," Pawar said. Pawar said that the economy has been affected due to Coronavirus and cutting down on resources due to lockdown is only making it worse. “I hope the public representatives will cooperate with the state finance department as a strong financial support is required for the state in this ongoing fight against coronavirus,” he added. Maharashtra is the epicenter of the disease with 1135 Coronavirus positive cases — with 72 deaths, as on April 9. India has 6373 cases in all, and is trying hard to stop the epidemic from spreading from Stage 2 to Stage 3, which is when community spread will be rampant. As of now, the government is hoping to arrest the disease within these hotspots and ensure unabated spreading does not occur. It is also considering extending the 21-day lockdown which is expected to end on April 14. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/after-telangana-maharashtra-announces-60-pay-cut-for-government-employees/articleshow/74912477.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Rajasthan, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh join the list of states which cut government employee pay</a>

Maharashtra to cut salaries of all its MLAs by 30% for the entire year

Thane, Apr 10 () Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik onFriday urged the Maharashtra government to double the salariesof the medical staff, who have been providing treatment toCOVID-19 patients.In a letter to Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, theThane city legislator said that the Harayana government hasalready implemented it.Risking their own lives, doctors, nurses and othermedical staff are selflessly carrying out their work oftreating the coronavirus patients. Their work needs to beappreciated and hence their salaries should be doubled, hesaid in the letter."Likewise, every police personnel, who is servingselflessly during this period, should be given an insurancecover of Rs 50 lakh," he added."If the government wants, it can deduct the salariesof legislators up to 50 per cent from the present 30 per cent,so that the money is diverted towards those serving thesociety," Sarnaik said.The Maharashtra Cabinet on Thursday decided to cut thesalaries of MLAs and MLCs by 30 per cent from this month tillMarch next year in view of the state's economy bearing thebrunt of the coronavirus crisis. CORNP NP

COVID-19: MLA demands doubling of salaries of medical staff

Aurangabad, Jun 12 () BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dr Bhagwat Karad on Friday alleged that the Maharashtra government was trying to hide the real extent of COVID-19 spread in Aurangabad by reducing the amount of testing done in the district. Speaking about the viral outbreak in Aurangabad, the Rajya Sabha MP claimed that the testing capacity in the district was not being utilised to the fullest. "Earlier, when one person tested positive, at least 80 to 90 suspects were examined. This strategy had helped control coronavirus cases in Aurangabad," he said. However, now although the district has adequate testing facilities, they were not being utilised to their full capacity, he alleged. The state government was trying to hide the actual figure of COVID-19 cases by reducing coronavirus testing in Aurangabad, Karad claimed. Moreover, the BJP leader alleged that the quarantine facilities in the district were also underutilised. "If the administration claims that 7,000 to 9,000 people can be quarantined at facilities in the district, then why are close contacts of positive patients placed in home quarantine?" he said. If asymptomatic and suspects are tested aggressively and quarantined at facilities, the situation can be brought under control, he said. Meanwhile, former minister and BJP MLA from Aurangabad Atul Save said hospitals in the city should be acquired for treating COVID-19 patients. Save further claimed that salaries offered to doctors in Aurangabad during the present health crisis was far less than those paid to their counterparts in Mumbai. Salaries for medical professionals should be equal throughout the state and only then new doctors will be willing to work during the pandemic, he said. As on Friday morning, Aurangabad has recorded 2,524 COVID-19 cases, of which 1,363 patients have recovered and 128 have succumbed to the infection, a district official said. AW ARU ARU

Maha govt trying to hide extent of COVID-19 outbreak: BJP MP

Bhubaneswar, Apr 7 () Leader of Opposition in theOdisha Assembly Pradipta Naik on Tuesday urged the stategovernment to take steps to suspend the MLA Local AreaDevelopment (MLALAD) fund for two years and slash salaries ofministers and legislators by 30 per cent for a year as it willprovide additional funds to fight COVID-19.Taking a cue from the Centre which has approvedan ordinance to reduce salaries of all sitting MPs by 30 percent for one year and suspend the MP Local Area DevelopmentSchemes (MPLADS) for two years, the senior BJP leader said,the Odisha government should adopt similar measures in view ofthe coronavirus pandemic.The salaries of political leaders holding posts ofchairperson and president in various state PSUs, councils,corporations and other government bodies should also bereduced by 30 per cent, he said.I request the state government to suspend the MLALADfund for two years. Salaries of ministers and MLAs should alsobe cut by 30 per cent for at least one year in view of thecoronavirus crisis, he told .The MLAs in Odisha are entitled to Rs 3 crore eachunder the Local Area Development Fund for carrying outdevelopmental activities in their constituencies.Maintaining that the entire country is fighting tocontain the spread of the virus, Naik said,Being peoplesrepresentatives, we have a significant role at this juncture.Suggesting formation of a special fund with the moneyobtained from the proposed suspension of the MLALAD fund andsalary reduction, Naik said, it should be utilised forcombating coronavirus in an effective manner in the state.The fund can be of immense help in strengtheningthe preparedness to deal with preventing the spread of COVID-19, he said.It can also be used for implementation of a long-termplan to strengthen the health sector in the state.The BJP leader, who also put forward his suggestionsin a series of tweets, said that the state government may alsoconsidering reduction of budgetary allocation for somedepartments and put the money in the special fund as it wouldgo a long way in giving a boost to the health sector.Urging the state government to seriously considerhis suggestions, Naik said, he will soon send a formal letterto Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in this regard. SKNMM MM

COVID-19: Odisha opp leader for scrapping MLALAD fund, slashing of lawmakers' salaries

Long stints in electoral politics and past experience in handling key government departments are the hallmarks of Congress-NCP-Shiv Sena legislators who took oath as ministers along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at the Shivaji Park here on Thursday evening. Thackeray is heading a coalition government, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), whose main constituents are the Sena, the Congress and the NCP. <keyword id="6360285" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="chhagan-bhujbal">Chhagan Bhujbal</keyword>, Jayant Patil (both from the NCP), Balasaheb Thorat and Nitin Raut (both from the Congress), Eknath Shinde and Subhash Desai (both from the Sena) took oath as ministers along with Thackeray. Chhagan Bhujbal: Bhujbal (72) is a veteran figure in Maharashtra politics, who has the rare distinction of being associated with all the three major non-BJP parties in the state. A senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, Bhujbal had been a member of both the Shiv Sena and the Congress at different times. Taking over as a minister is a sort of revival of his political fortunes after spending two years in jail since March 2016 in a money laundering case when the BJP-led government was in power. Bhujbal, who represents the OBC community, cut his political teeth in the Shiv Sena. He served as the Mayor of Mumbai, a Sena bastion, two times - 1985-86 and 1990-91. He quit the Sena in 1991, causing quite a stir in state politics, and joined the Congress. Bhujbal resigned from the Congress in 1999 and sided with Sharad Pawar who formed the NCP the same year. He became deputy chief minister in December 2008 and held key portfolios such as home affairs and public works in the Congress-NCP government. Jayant Patil: Jayant Patil (57) is perceived as a leader with a clean image. He took charge of the NCP's Maharashtra unit replacing Sunil Tatkare in April 2018, ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha and state Assembly polls. The NCP retained its tally in the 2019 April Lok Sabha election and fared better in the October Assembly polls, but the credit largely went to his boss, Pawar. Being part of a motley alliance of once-rival and ideologically divergent parties, Patil, known for composed demeanour, will be one of the key leaders who will be seen doing the trapeze act to ensure the three-party government sustains. Patil, son of well-known Maharashtra leader the late Rajaram Patil, held key portfolios like finance, home and rural development from 1999 to 2014 when the Congress-NCP combine ruled the state. Eknath Shinde: Shinde (55) is the most prominent face of the Sena in the adjoining Thane city from where has been elected consecutively four terms to the assembly. Considered a troubleshooter in the Sena, Shinde was the PWD minister in the previous BJP-led government (2014-19. Subhash Desai: One of the confidants of Uddhav Thackeray, Desai (77) is currently an MLC. The senior-most member of the cabinet had been a member of the assembly three times. Now serving his third term in the upper house of the legislature, Desai was the industries minister in the 2014-19 BJP-Sena government. Balasaheb Thorat: Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat (66) took charge of the party's state unit at a difficult time. When Thorat became the Maharashtra Congress chief in July this year, the party was already staring down the barrel after its Lok Sabha poll debacle in the state, once its citadel. It could win only one seat in the general election and was relegated to inferior position than its ally, the NCP. The Congress (44) though fared better in the Assembly elections, winning two more seats than its 2014 tally. The result may not be satisfactory for the party, which led the state several times in the past, a trusted lieutenant of the party's central leadership, Thorat ensured proper co-ordination in the state unit hit by factionalism. Thorat, known for maintaining a low profile, was first elected as an MLA from Sangamner in 1985 as an independent. In 1990, he contested Assembly poll on a Congress ticket and this is his eighth term as a legislator. He became a minister of state in 1999 and was promoted as a cabinet minister in 2004. The Congress legislature party leader has held revenue, agriculture, water conservation and protocol portfolios in the past. Nitin Raut: A key leader of the Congress from its erstwhile bastion of Vidarbha in eastern Maharashtra, Raut (62) is a four-term MLA. He is national chairman of the Congress's Scheduled Caste department and one of the working presidents of the party in Maharashtra. Hailing from Nagpur, Raut, too, comes with past experience in government. He has held animal husbandry, employment guarantee and water conservation departments so far.

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