Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:32555-DB Chief Justice's Court Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 297 of 2025 Petitioner :- Raj Kishor and another Respondent :- State of U.P. and another Counsel for Petitioner :- Vinay Bhushan Upadhyay Counsel for Respondent :- Rajiv Singh, S.C. Hon'ble Arun Bhansali,Chief Justice Hon'ble Kshitij Shailendra,J. 1. This petition purported in public interest has been filed by the petitioners seeking enhancement of amount of honorarium of Village Panchayat Members to attend the meeting of the Village Panchayat, which presently is Rs.100/-, to Rs.487/- per day. 2. Submission has been made that the Village Panchayat Members are being paid very low honorarium compared with other office bearers of the Panchayat and therefore, the same may be ordered to be enhanced. 3. We have considered the submissions made in the petition. The amount is being paid to the elected members in the nature of honorarium and therefore, to claim that the same should be enhanced on account of the fact that for the day they attend the meeting they have to forego their livelihood, cannot be countenanced. 4. Further, the locus of the petitioners, who claim to be social workers and RTI activists cannot be countenanced as those for whose benefit the public interest litigation has been filed are very much competent to approach the Court in case they have any grievance qua the honorarium paid to them. 5. In that view of the matter, we do not find any reason to entertain the present Public Interest Litigation. The same is, therefore, dismissed. Order Date :- 6.3.2025 nd (Kshitij Shailendra, J) (Arun Bhansali, CJ) Digitally signed by :- NISITH DEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad