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Article 97

Part V — The Union · Constitution of India

Article 97

Salaries and allowances of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker. There shall be paid to the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States, and to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People, such salaries and allowances as may be respectively fixed by Parliament by law and, until provision in that behalf is so made, such salaries and allowances as are specified in the Second Schedule.

In plain wordsSalaries and allowances of the Rajya Sabha's Chairman and Deputy Chairman and the Lok Sabha's Speaker and Deputy Speaker are fixed by Parliament by law, with the Second Schedule applying until then. Their pay comes from a public legal source, not from the government of the day.
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