Goa’s Advocate General Mr. Subodh Kantak having been paid by the Goa Government Rs 3 crores 99 lakhs 46 thousand 750 rupees by way of fees from February 2005 to Feb 2009 has only confirmed that Mr. Subodh Kantak is not only India’s highest paid Advocate General but the nation’s highest paid constitutional authority.
With Mr. Subodh Kantak’s fees now capped at Rs five lakhs a month, he gets paid over three times the salary of our nation’s President Mrs. Pratibha Patil whose monthly salary is Rs 1.5 lakh and almost five times the salary of Chief Justice of India whose salary is Rs 1.10 lakh per month. Aires Rodrigues Ribandar