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Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 29: None among three former Chief Ministers (CMs) are, at present, drawing pension despite clear provision under which former heads of the governments in Jammu and Kashmir are entitled to pension, free telephones, reimbursement of their expenses on petrol besides former Chief Ministers are entitled to two orderlies and one personal Assistant. The rules were amended about seven years ago to help the former Chief Ministers to draw pension and other perks.
Dr Farooq Abdullah, Mufti Mohd.Sayeed and Ghulam Nabi Azad.All three are entitled to receive monthly pension and other perks. But no one draws pension, because of not being generous and want to help the state exchequer, as salaries are three times more than the salary. The matter of fact is that they cannot draw pension because Farooq Abdullah is a member of Lok Sabha and Union Minister for Renewable Energy, so prefers to draws salary as the Union Minister. Similarly Ghulam Nabi Azad is a member of the Rajya Sabha and is Union Minister for Health. Like Farooq he is also prefers drawing salary in the capacity of the Union Minister.
Since Mufti Mohd.Sayed was elected to the State Assembly he too could not be entitled to pension. Assembly secretariat sources today explained that there was no bar on Farooq Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mufti Mohd.Sayed if they opted for drawing pension in the capacity of former Chief Ministers. The sources said that the three have not applied for pension because they could draw either the pension or the salary as union ministers and member legislative Assembly. The sources stated that since the salary was three times more than the pension Azad, Farooq and the Mufti opted for a better course.
According to the Assembly secretariat sources only two former Chief Ministers could draw their pension. They were Syed Mir Qasim and G.M. Shah. However, after Syed Mir Qasim died in December 2004 release of pension had to be stopped. Similarly Shah received pension till January 2009 when he passed away. The sources said that even the legislators are entitled to pension after they cease to be members of either the Assembly or the Council. Asked whether some legislators drew pension during the six months of the Governor's rule in 2008 the sources said that most of the former legislators did not apply for pension as they had to get no objection certificates from various government departments, including PDD, Hospitality and Protocol. Some of them did not apply for pension because they were sure to get reelected to the Assembly or to the Council.
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