POLITICIANS SHOULD BE ASKED TO WORK FOR FREE!
SYNOPSIS:
FOR THE MOTION:
Politics is more of a voluntary act. With the amount of media attention and under-table money a politician earns, he need not be given any salary. Salary makes the whole idea of politics too corrupt and erases away the essence of leadership and statesmanship. With benefits and perks (directly and indirectly) a politicians earns, salaries becomes irrelevant.
AGAINST THE MOTION:
With debate going around to encourage technocrats/professions and young graduate to opt for politics as a career, a handsome pay package would make it attractive. Today, politics is seen as a long term professional career (with courses in planning & administration catching up) and not as a social service. Across the world politicians are treated as professionals and youngsters view this as career-option that would fetch them financial security too! Absence of money/salary may discourage potential leaders from not-so-well-off families from entering this field.
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GPM- globalpovertymultiple.com [how much is a politicians getting compared to the BPL in the country]
GPM- globalpovertymultiple.com [how much is a politicians getting compared to the BPL in the country]
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Economist:
http://www.economist.com/node/16525240; http://the-economist.com/node/16525240; http://www.economist.com/node/16335792;
India today:
Asian Age:
Additional readings:
sir can u plz suggest some readings and main points that we must focus upon.
ReplyDeletelike one of our points is :
if we pay the politicians the young generation also gets attracted....
so plz suggest some major points for the topic....
thanks and regards
sananda
@ Sananda,
ReplyDeleteReadings are already suggested... Go through the links and dig deeper!
ur basic point is correct... side by side, kindly go through the researches done by THE ECONOMIST and read the ASIAN AGE article... that'll bring more perspectives for u guys!
Try to bring international color into it.. it'll work out fine..
best wishes!
Aniruddh!
sir, in this topic, can we also bring in the salary structure of foreign politicians?? Like the salaries of politicians at different levels of govt. in USA & Europe as well?
ReplyDeletesure, u have to bring that comparison!
ReplyDeletethanks a ton Sir..ur Suggestve websites are helpng a lot..
ReplyDeletesir.
ReplyDeletecan we use picture slide wit out ny statistics or data...and describe d stats and d facts by words during presentation??
Ayan
SA 2
Sir,
ReplyDeleteI am unable to get the details for salary comparison as given in the link
http://fazeer.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/the-quality-of-politicians/
as here if we compare, we are not able to reach to any conclusion.
Kindly advice.
Regards
Vishal Verma
FA2