To Give Judges Big Salary Hike, Cabinate To Pass Ordinance

TO GIVE JUDGES BIG SALARY HIKE, CABINATE TO PASS ORDINANCE 29-12-2008 17:45:06 IST At the fag end of its tenure, the UPA government has decided to make judges happy. Using its extraordinary powers, the cabinet is all set to give judges a threefold hike in salaries. The hike is likely to be announced next week, since the government does not want to delay the matter any further, which has been pending since July. The cabinet has agreed to use the constitutional provision of bringing an ordinance to implement the hike. The ordinance will have the validity of a law, until Parliament meets the next time. The salaries of Supreme Court and high court judges are determined by a law passed in Parliament. But the cabinet has powers to bring an ordinance when Parliament is not in session. According to government sources UPA has taken to the ordinance route after it failed to get the bill passed in the Parliament session, which ended on Tuesday (23rd December). The cabinet had approved the judges’ salary hike on November 20. The bill proposing the hike was introduced in the Lok Sabha by law minister H.R. Bhardwaj on the second-last day of the session. Since there was practically no business in Parliament this week due to severe disruptions by the Opposition, no progress could be made on the bill.

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