Mps’ Family Members Being Allowed Free Air Travel Facility
ISLAMABAD: Members of the deputies' family are allowed to travel by plane with state money
allocated to their leaders, the federal legislators.
The Law on Members of Parliament (salaries and allowances)
is being amended to achieve this objective. A bill to this effect has been
tabled in the National Assembly. It is said that the expression in the current
legislation, deputies entitled to 25 round-trip business class plane tickets, is replaced by the right
to receive travel vouchers for an equal amount of 25 plane tickets. Round-trip
plane in business class from Pakistan
International Airlines (PIA).
These vouchers will be added to the already available
vouchers of Rs300,000 which are used to travel
by plane or train by MPs and their family members for one year.
The bill indicates that unused airline tickets and vouchers for the 2019-2020 fiscal year will
remain acceptable until they are used until June 30, 2020. The purpose
statement and the reasons for the proposed law indicate that article 10 of the
current law regulates the privilege of traveling
free of Deputies, who are entitled to 25 round-trip air tickets in business class from the airport closest to their
constituency to Islamabad, by year. In addition, coupons of Rs300,000 to be
used for traveling by plane or train.
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