A government committee has rejected a proposal to increase the retirement age of government servants from 60 to 62. The decision is likely to impact over one lakh central government employees and 50,000 defence personnel on the verge of retirement. The proposal — which could have meant saving Rs4,000 crore in this fiscal — was rejected as the government wants a younger bureaucracy.
The fraud complaint
The HRD ministry and sections of the academic community were temporarily preoccupied with a complaint the government received from a body claiming to represent SC/ST employees at the University Grants Commission (UGC) , alleging discrimination by Commission chairman Ved Prakash. But the complaint, it has now been discovered, was fake. The body that sent it doesn’t exist, the UGC’s SC/ST employees’ association has certified. The sender also refused to divulge his identity to the government. A case of attempted malice against the Chairman?
Academics compete with netas for that ‘one more chance
Politicians, it appears, aren’t alone in keeping their ambitions intact with age. IIT Directors, too, love second terms — even though some believe that a proper reading of the IIT Act — that governs the Institutes — does not allow repeats. After MS Ananth (second term at IIT Madras), Sanjay Dhande (second term at IIT Kanpur) and Gautam Barua (second term at IIT Guwahati), it is the turn of IIT Delhi Director Surendra Prasad to pitch for a second term. The qualification requirements for the post state that applicants should preferably be aged below 60. Prasad — caretaker director at present — is over 60. But that has not stopped him from applying for a second term.
The case of the missing file
After a file on the Cabinet decision of 1991 — regarding government accounts — went missing, neither the Cabinet Secretariat nor the Finance Ministry — which mooted the proposal — had any clue. Eventually, the Central Information Commission had to intervene and ask the government to locate the file and provide the requisite information to the RTI applicant.
Source: The Hindustan Times
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the govt. will save Rs 1,735,000 crore if retirement age is increased to 62. why make unpopular decisions where the people get deeply hurt like hike in petroleum products. By just incresing the retirement age so much can be saved why not do it early. govt. can also reduce the price of petrol by waiving off the duty it charges to the tune of 43%
kudos to the govt. body which took courage to sideline the movement to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 when the country is getting rotten by corruption and lagging in snail’s pace with many old-aged people at the helm of affairs. To let the system rot for the sake of extending the tenure of few secretaries and addl. secretaries was something unbecoming to good governance. Hope we see a reducing of retirement age from 60 to 58 and also putting an age limit for the MPs and MLAs to stem corruption.
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The retirement age of C G Employees should not increase .Instead of that (Like Railways) The job must be given to the employees son/daughter who attain the service more then 20 years or aged 55 to 57 goes under VRS.