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