Ex-UP IAS Sanjeev Ahluwalia asks for taxing bureaucrats’ perks; bats for better pay to top babus

DAYS after the government’s announcement that it would soon set up the 7th Pay Commission for revising the bureaucrats’ pay, a former IAS officer of UP cadre Sanjeev S Ahluwalia has called for taxing perks including house, furniture, house help, official car, telephone etc. enjoyed by the bureaucrats. In a blog post titled “Babunomics for Rahul”, Ahluwalia, who is incidentally the brother of deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, has asked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to…