Pervez Pestonji Saher (60), a senior laundry operator at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower at Apollo Bunder in Mumbai, is arguably the country’s highest paid union leader.
Saher’s pay packet? A whopping Rs 1.53 crore a year.
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Saher has been earning over Rs 1 crore a year since 2006-07, according to data trawled from the annual reports of The Indian Hotels Company Ltd.
Put that in a little more perspective: Saher’s take-home pay (net of taxes) in 2008-09 was Rs 1 crore while Karambir Singh Kang — the general manager of the Taj Mahal Palace & Towers and the man who hit the headlines for valiantly defending the iconic property during the 26/11 terror attacks — gets a pay check of Rs 28.37 lakh a year.
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