**Policy Summary: Lok Sabha Secretariat - Amendment to Directions Regarding Daily Allowance for Members**
This notification, issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat on April 1, 2025, announces an amendment to the Directions by the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Tenth Edition, concerning daily allowance for Members of Parliament (MPs). The amendment, issued in pursuance of Rule 389 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha Seventeenth Edition, introduces DIRECTION 1A – Daily Allowance.
DIRECTION 1A stipulates that MPs are entitled to receive a daily allowance for attending sessions of the House. However, eligibility is contingent upon the MP signing a register maintained by the Secretariat of the House of the People on all session days, excluding intervening holidays. The signature requirement can be fulfilled through physical or electronic/biometric means approved by the Speaker. The register can be a physical register or an e-register generated through dedicated software.
This information was initially published in the Lok Sabha Bulletin Part II on March 28, 2025 (No. 2345).
Contact: UTPAL KUMAR SINGH, Secretary-General, Lok Sabha Secretariat. F. No. LAFEASCB I01912025CBI.
Key Entities Referenced
Lok Sabha: The lower house of the Parliament of India.
New Delhi: The capital city of India, where the Lok Sabha Secretariat is located.
Rule 389 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha: A rule governing the procedure and conduct of business in the Lok Sabha.
Speaker, Lok Sabha: The presiding officer of the Lok Sabha.
Direction 1A: A new direction issued by the Speaker, Lok Sabha, regarding Daily Allowance for Members.
House of the People: Another name for the Lok Sabha.
UTPAL KUMAR SINGH: Secretary General of the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi: A printing press of the Government of India located in Delhi.
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लोक सभा सजिवालय
अजधसिू ना
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लोक सभा अध्य क्ष के जनिेिों म ेंसिं ोधन
(िसवा ं सस्ट्ं क रण)
अध् यक्ष न े लोक सभा के प्रदिया तथा काय-च संिालन जनयम (सत्रहवां संस्ट् करण) के जनयम 389 के अनुसरण म ें
जनम्न जलजखत नए जनिेि िारी दकए ह:ैं-
जनिेि 1क
“ िैजनक भत्ता 1क. सिस्ट्य सभा के सत्र म ें उपजस्ट्थत होने के जलए िैजनक भत्ता प्राप्त करन े का हकिार होगा:
परंत ु यह दक कोई भी सिस्ट्य पूवोक्त भत्ता प्राप्त करन े का तब तक हकिार नहीं होगा, िब
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जलए इस प्रकार हस्ट्ताक्षर करना अपेजक्षत नहीं ह)ै को लोक सभा सजिवालय द्वारा इस प्रयोिन के
जलए रख े गए रजिस्ट्टर पर हस्ट्ताक्षर नहीं करता ह:ै
परंत ु यह भी दक हस्ट्ताक्षर म ेंअध्यक्ष द्वारा अनुमोदित दकसी भी इलेक्ट्रॉजनक या बायोमेट्ररक
साधन के माध्यम स ेिि चउपजस्ट्थजत िाजमल होगी और रजिस्ट्टर म ेंभौजतक रजिस्ट्टर या इस प्रयोिन
के जलए उपलब्ध सॉफ्टवेयर के माध्यम स े िनरेट दकया गया ई-रजिस्ट्टर िाजमल होगा।”
उत् पल कुमार ससंह, महासजिव
LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 1st April, 2025
F. No. LAFEAS-CB I019/1/2025-CB-I.—The following paragraph published in the Lok Sabha Bulletin-Part
II dated 28 March, 2025, is hereby published for general information:-
“No. 2345 Committee Branch
Amendment to the Directions by the Speaker, Lok Sabha
(Tenth Edition )
In pursuance of Rule 389 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha (Seventeenth
Edition), the Speaker has issued the following new Direction :-
DIRECTION 1A
“Daily Allowance. 1A. A Member shall be entitled to receive daily allowance for attending the Session of the
House:
Provided that no Member shall be entitled to receive the aforesaid allowance unless a
Member signs the register, maintained for this purpose by the Secretariat of the House of the
People, on all the days (except intervening holidays for which no such signing is required)
of the Session of the House:
Provided further that the signature shall include attendance marked through any electronic
or biometric means approved by Speaker and register shall include physical register or
e-register generated through Software maintained for this purpose.”
UTPAL KUMAR SINGH, Secy. General
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