Perks of former JK CMs withdrawn

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers have lost all perks after the Centre repealed or amended 138 legislations of the erstwhile state.

According to a gazette notification on Wednesday, thegovernment amended the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature Members’ Pension Actand increased the pension amount to Rs 75,000 per month from Rs 50,000.

   

Section 3-C of the Act, under which former chief ministersof Jammu and Kashmir were entitled to various privileges and perks, has nowbeen omitted.

With this amendment, the former chief ministers would not beentitled for rent-free furnished accommodation, expenditure to the limit of Rs35,000 per annum for furnishing of the residential accommodation, freetelephone calls up to the value of Rs 48,000 per annum, free electricity to theextent of Rs 1,500 per month, car, petrol, medical facilities, driver andpersonal assistant.

The provisions were made through a gazette notification,titled the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of State Laws)Order-2020.

Four former chief ministers of the erstwhile state — FarooqAbdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti — are alive andall of them are central government protectees.

The Special Security Group, which mans the security of thechief minister and former chief ministers, will not provide security to familymembers of serving chief ministers.

Amending the Jammu and Kashmir Migrant Immoveable Property(Preservation, Protection and Restraint on Distress Sales) Act, the governmentinserted a paragraph whereby it asked “competent authorities” shallprepare the details of irremovable property of migrants in a prescribed formatand “take appropriate action to evict unauthorised occupant of suchmigrant property including such action as provided in section 5” of theAct.

Section 5 says that if any unauthorised occupant of anymigrant property refuses or fails to surrender possession, the competentauthority may use force for taking possession.

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