NEW DELHI: Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
has made public the monthly remuneration of all its officers and staff
as part of proactive disclosure under the Right to Information Act.
The Secretary to the Prime Minister and IAS
officer of the 1983 batch, Bhaskar Khulbe is the highest paid official
at the PMO with a monthly salary of Rs 2.01 lakh, as per the PMO
statement as on June 1, 2016. Khulbe, who was till recently an
Additional Secretary was appointed as Secretary to PM last week. The
three other top officials at PMO - Principal Secretary to PM, Nripendra Misra,
Additional Principal Secretary P.K. Mishra and National Security
Adviser Ajit Doval get paid the same amount -- Rs 1,62,500 per month
plus pension since all three of these officials are retired civil
servants. The Public Relations Officer at PMO and and old aide of the
Prime Minister, J.M. Thakkar is paid Rs 99434 per month plus pension.
The Information Officer of PIB posted to the PMO. Sharat Chander takes home Rs 1.26 lakh a month.
Among the Joint Secretaries, Tarun Bajaj is
the highest paid a Rs 177750 while Joint Secretary Anurag Jain is paid
Rs 176250 and A.K. Sharma takes home Rs 173250, as per the PMO
disclosure.
The PMO under Manmohan Singh had also made
public the salary of all its officials. In 2012, it was then disclosed
that then adviser to the Prime Minister TKA Nair, then national security
adviser Shiv Shankar Menon, then special envoy S.K. Lambah and then
principal secretary to the Prime Minister Pulok Chatterji took home an
identical salary of Rs 1.61 lakh, which included a salary of Rs 1.11
lakh and pension of Rs 50000.
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