How Large A Sacrifice is Rs10,000?

For our Ministers as announced in the last budget. Well, to find out we should take a look at their take home pay. A good place to start is for the Finance Minister to make available the total amount of pay and per diem he has received since July 2005. He can do that for his colleagues in the cabinet too so that they don't feel left out. Then we can get a better idea.

The other thing to consider is to switch from a per diem basis to a refund basis. That is Ministers should first make their expenses and then get refunded afterwards. A third suggestion would be to give the per diem in rupees so that we align the interest of our globe-trotters with that of the common woman. These might have, had they been in place for at least a decade, restrained one ex-central banker from blurting out dim-witted prescriptions about depreciating our rupee with an annoying frequency.