{"id":7993,"date":"2009-04-11T19:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T19:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2009\/04\/indian-mps-make-merry-taxpayers-money\/"},"modified":"2009-04-11T19:11:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T19:11:18","slug":"indian-mps-make-merry-taxpayers-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2009\/04\/indian-mps-make-merry-taxpayers-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian MPs make merry on tax-payer&#039;s money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Indian MPs on official assignments should not go for 5 star hotels.  That is the policy.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the terrorists struck on 26-11, 4 MPs were caught in the cross fire.  They were there as part of 15-member Lok Sabha Committee on Subordinate Legislation to hold meetings with the top brass of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd [Get Quote] and other Public Sector Undertakings.<\/p>\n<p>The four MPs were <b>N N Krishnadas (CPI-M), Jaisingrao Gaikwad Patil (NCP), Lal Mani Prasad (BSP) and Bhupendrasinh Solanki (BJP)<\/b>.<br>\n<!--break--><br>\nThe guidelines about the stay are pretty clear:<\/p>\n<p>Attempts have to be made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018to make arrangements regarding accommodation for the committee and the officers in a government guest house, including guest house of public undertaking, MLA hostel, circuit house etc., and<\/li>\n<li>Where government guest house is not available, arrangements may be made for the stay in a government-owned hotel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this came out as a result of a Right to Information (RTI) query.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian MPs on official assignments should not go for 5 star hotels.  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