Second Schedule
Salaries, allowances and privileges of the President, Governors, Speaker, judges, CAG and other constitutional authorities. · Articles 59, 65, 75, 97, 125, 148, 158, 164, 186 and 221
Sets out the salaries, allowances, privileges, and other terms of service for a specific list of high constitutional offices: the President and Vice-President, Governors, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha (and their state-level equivalents), Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, and the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG).
Offices Covered (by Part of the Schedule)
- Part A — The President and the Governors of States
- Part B — (repealed; formerly the Rajpramukhs of former princely-state unions)
- Part C — The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of the People, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Council of States, and their state-level equivalents
- Part D — The Judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Courts
- Part E — The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
Explains where the President's salary or a Supreme Court judge's pension actually comes from constitutionally — these aren't set by ordinary government pay scales, they're written directly into the Constitution's own Schedule (though Parliament can amend the specific figures by law).
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