How much are VIPs, including President and PM, paid monthly?

KATHMANDU: Do you know how much the state pays to the VIPs, including President and Prime Minister,  monthly?

The Ministry of Finance has made public the revised salary scale of the government service holders and the VIPs, effective from the start of new fiscal year.

Here is the list of monthly salary that the VIPs draw from the state coffers:

Designation

Monthly salary

1

President

Rs 150,450

2

Vice President

Rs 106,030

3

Prime Minister

Rs 77,280

4

Deputy Prime Minister

Rs 65,200

5

Cabinet Minister

Rs 60,970

6

State Minister

Rs 57,780

7

Assistant Minister

Rs 56,490

8

Speaker

Rs 67,320

9

Deputy Speaker

Rs 60,970

10

Leader of Main Opposition Party

Rs 60,970

11

Chief Whip of Ruling Party

Rs 60,970

12

Chief Whip of Main Opposition Party

Rs 57,780

13

Whip of Ruling Party

Rs 57,780

14

Chairperson of Committee under Parliament

Rs 57,780

15

Member of Parliament

Rs 55,230

 16

Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Rs 73,680

 17

Justice of Supreme Court

Rs 60,970

 18

Head of Constitutional Bodies

Rs 57,780

 19

Member of Constitutional Bodies

Rs 54590

 20

Attorney General

Rs 60,970

 21

Chief Secretary

Rs 58,880*

 22

Secretary

Rs 54,848*

 23

Chief of Nepal Army Staff

Rs 58,880*

 24

Inspector General of Nepal Police

Rs 54,848*

 25

Inspector General of Armed Police Force

Rs 54,848*

The salary scale was been endorsed by the Cabinet meeting on last Friday, to be effective from the new fiscal year which began Saturday, July 16.

According to the new scale, the staffer to draw the least monthly pay from the state coffers is a recruit of the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force, who gets Rs 16,830.

In the annual budget announcement for the new fiscal, the government had announced to raise the salary of civil servants by 25 per cent.

* Two grades included