Coronavirus impact: MPs to take cuts in constituency and office allowance

Members of Parliament (MPs) will have to take 30 per cent cut in some of the allowances such as those related to constituency and office work. Instead of Rs 70,000 a month constituency allowance they will get Rs 49,000 from April 1 this year, according to notifications issued by the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats.
 

Similarly, their office expense allowance has been cut to Rs 14,000 a month, from Rs 20,000, according to a notification issued by the Rajya Sabha secretariat.
 

The government also promulgated an Ordinance to cut the salary of MPs by 30 per cent. The Salary,