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dated May 19, 1956: PM opposes income ceiling

Prime Minister Nehru has said that Socialism is not something which can be defined as a dead level of poverty. "The approach of talking about a ceiling on income," he added, "is not the right approach. It is an approach to which you cannot give effect. Only, you can satisfy yourself psychologically." He was intervening during the debate in the Rajya Sabha on May 18 on a non-official resolution urging steps for fixation of a ceiling for individual incomes at Rs. 25,000 a year and, as a first step towards this, determination of the maximum emoluments of a civil servant under the Central Government at a sum not exceeding Rs. 1,800 per month. Mr. Nehru said, "In regard to the services, I do think it is an extraordinary proposition to ask to begin a lopping off of the heads and cutting of salaries of the services. I know some services are highly paid. But by far the majority are not paid heavily at all. They are rather paid less than the people of their qualifications in most countries of the world."

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