The government may make the anouncement in the Prime Minister's 15 August address
A proposal to increase the retirement age of government employees from 60 to 62 years came to the Cabinet on Thursday but a decision was deferred. The government might make the announcement in the Prime Minister’s Independence Day address, his last before general elections in 2014. The ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions has proposed an increase in retirement age of government employees from 60 to 62 years, top sources confirmed.
There are around five million central government employees in India. The previous occassion the government raised the retirement age of central government employees was in 1998, from 58 to 60 years. The move is meant to ease the financial burden on the government in terms of its pension liabilities, sources said.
The retirement age of professors in all central universities was recently raised to 65 years. D L Sachdev, national secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress, said his union was totally against the increase of the retirement age beyond 60. It would hurt the youth, especially when the government is doing nothing to create jobs for them, Sachdev said.
Congress-affiliated Indian National Trade Union Congress national president Sanjeeva Reddy said his union had been demanding increase in the retirement age to 62 years and would welcome it.
Minister for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions V Narayanaswami had ruled out an increase in the retirement age to a question in Parliament in the winter session this year. An official in the ministry, when asked, refused to speak about it.
Source:http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/cabinet-decision-to-increase-retirement-age-deferred-113080201034_1.html
Why Central Govt. is not flling up the number of the vacant posts under direct recruitment quota in all the categories. Why there is ban ? It is not understood. If you see the Central Govt. offices in All over India, there is no staff to attend the public grievances.
ReplyDeleteWe the Central Govt. Employees staying in Navi Mumbai and covered under CGHS Scheme, we do not have any Private Recognised Hospital in Navi Mumbai to get proper treatment. We have to rush to Mumbai which is more than 35 Kms from Navi Mumbai for the simple treatment. CGHS Head of the Deptt. is requested to approve the proposals if any received for the recognition of the Private Hospital for Navi Mumbai area.
ReplyDeleteinstead of raising the retirement age of central govt.employees ,action should be taken to fill up the existing vacancies for improving the quality of service.
ReplyDeletebio metric card system should be introduced in central govt.offices to watch the attendance of the staffs.so much manpower and material is getting wasted in govt.offices due to total mismanagement and non-co-operation of the subordinates.
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