{"id":8015,"date":"2020-05-18T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:08:12","slug":"salary-of-the-president-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/salary-of-the-president-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary of the President of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"page-title\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Relevance: Prelims: Indian Polity<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind has decided to forgo 30% of his salary for the whole year apart from directing officials to adopt other austerity measures in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/presidentofindiaarticle52-62-170206121421\/95\/president-of-india-article-52-62-3-638.jpg?cb=1486383307\" alt=\"President of india (article 52 62)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Constitutional Provisions:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Article 59 (2): The President shall not hold any other office of profit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Article 59 (3): The President shall be entitled without payment of rent to the use of his official residences. He\/she shall also be entitled to such emoluments, allowances and privileges as may be determined by Parliament by law and, until provision in that behalf is so made, such emoluments, allowances, and privileges as are specified in the Second Schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Article 59 (4): The emoluments and allowances of the President shall not be diminished during his term of office.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/ch19ch20governanceatthestatelevel-150116003621-conversion-gate01\/95\/nios-std-x-10th-social-science-ch-19-ch-20-governance-at-the-state-level-33-638.jpg?cb=1421368853\" alt=\"NIOS STD X 10TH, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ch 19 &amp; ch 20 governance at the stat\u2026\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Indian Polity Why in news? \u2022 President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind has decided to forgo 30%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8016,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions\/8016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}