A proposal to raise the salaries of MPs five times and slightly above that of a secretary to the government of India has been made by a JPC but it appears unlikely to pass muster in Parliament immediately.

As against Rs 16,000 an MP gets as salary currently, the hike proposed by the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances is pegged at Rs 80,000, a bit more than a Secretary-rank official.

While MPs of most of the parties are wanting a raise, the government is unlikely to take any immediate decision with Parliament sources noting that no bill for this purpose is being brought tomorrow, the last day of the Budget session.

"Government is seriously working on it," they said adding that a Cabinet note would be prepared by the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry for the consideration the Union Cabinet.

Along with allowances like Rs 1,000 per sitting of Parliament or meeting of Parliamentary committees during inter-session period, an MP normally gets Rs 60,000 including the salary.

Several MPs said that rationalisation was needed to be done in salary and allowances as the MPs get even far less than MLAs in some states.

The Committee headed by Congress MP Charan Das Mahant submitted its report to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari yesterday.

The last hike in salaries and allowances of MPs was effected some ten years back.

Meanwhile, CPI-M said it will oppose the move of Parliamentarians themselves deciding on their pay hike saying it was "wrong".

"We will oppose it and that is why we are not in that Committee. We did not deliberately go into that Committee because we think that MPs themselves deciding on their salary is not correct... If we sit and decide on our salaries, this would be wrong," CPM Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here.