Salaries and allowances of members of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council

(1) Every member of the [Telangana] Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council who does not hold any of the offices referred to in sections 3 to 5 and sections 12-A and 12-B shall be entitled to receive,- (a) a salary of Rs. 20,000/- (rupees twenty thousand only) per mensem; (b) [xxx] (c) travelling, daily and other allowances at such rates and upon such conditions as may be determined by rules made by the State Government. (1A) Every member referred to in sub-section (1) shall be provided, at his or her option, either with railway coupons enabling to travel in the first class upto a maximum distance [of 70,000 Kms. (Seventy thousand Kilometers)] in a year or with such lumpsum amount calculated at the prevailing railway fare at the stage of 800 Kilometers according to the fare fixed for each Kilometer travelled, [up to 70,000 Kms.] and such member or his or her spouse shall be entitled to travel either singly or together with spouse or with any other person by any railway in India: Provided that the lumpsum amount so calculated shall be paid to each such member in two equal instalments, one in the first half of the year and the other in the second half of the year subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf. The office of a village official or Watandar, namely, Patel, Patwari, Deshmukh, Deshpandya or Hissedar in such Watan who is not himself performing any service connected with the office or Watan or who is not customarily entrusted with any such service and who is in receipt of any share of the Rusum or other emoluments to which he may be entitled as a hereditary Watandar or Hissedar in the form of Haq-i-Malikana or otherwise.