
Bungalow of type VIII, £2 MAKH pension, free air and rail travel, free health care and personal assistants are some of the benefits of Jagdeep Dhankhar after resignation as vice president of India. Jagdeep Dhankhar shocked the nation when he offered a resignation on the first day of the monsoon meeting of parliament.
A day later on Tuesday, July 22, a source authorized to develop around the former Vice President said Dhankhars also started packing their belongings to soon move out of the Vice President in Nový Delhi. As a former vice -president, he is entitled to a government bungalow – a VIII bungalow in Lutyens’s Delhi or other areas.
Jagdeep Dhankhar, not only a government bungalow, will also be entitled to pension and other facilities after his resignation, said the live report Hindustan.
Under the Pension Act of Vice President, “retirement vice -chairman has the right to travel anywhere in India, the highest class, air, railway or steamboat, accompanied by a husband or partner or relative.”
Jagdeep Dhankhar would also be entitled to free health care together with a private doctor. Dhankhar will be assigned two personal assistants (passport) while his wife receives the services of a private secretary. The government will also cover accounts for electricity and water for bungalow assigned to the former Vice President. Also read | Elections of Vice President: NDA vs Opposition, who has the advantage?
According to the 2018 budget, the vice president’s salary was increased £48 Lakh per year and are entitled to obtain 50-60 % of their salary in the form of pension. Therefore Jagdeep Dhankhar could get more than £2 Lakh as a amount of pension.
Dhankhar resigned from his post on Monday and quoted health problems. On Tuesday, however, Congress claimed that the reasons for his resignation as a vice president went “much deeper” than the health problems.
Vice -presidential elections will soon be held as the Indian Election Commission (ECI) that it began to prepare for the elections. ECI also said it began to create an election university for vice -presidential elections.
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