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Babus retirement age set to go up

Babus retirement age set to go up

March 6: The top two officials in the state administration, chief secretary, Mr S.V. Prasad, and the director-general of police, Mr K. Aravinda Rao, will benefit from the Centre’s decision to set the retirement age for civil servants at 62 years from the present 60 years. Mr Aravinda Rao was due to retire in June and the chief secretary in September.

Sources told this newspaper that the Cabinet subcommittee of the Union government gave its nod for enhancing the retirement age, and orders amending the service rules are expected much before the retirement of the two officials. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, was keen to enhance the retirement age of bureaucrats.

Sources said that though the proposal is ready for implementation, there will be a few months’ delay because the government wants to make Mr Pulok Chatterjee the new Cabinet secretary at the Centre and prefers to wait for bureaucrats senior to him to retire before it makes the announcement.

Mr Chatterjee had earlier worked with the UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, and is considered a natural choice to take over from the incumbent Mr K.M. Chandrasekhar. “There are a few bureaucrats senior to Mr Chatterjee and the Centre will wait for their retirement in April,” explained a senior official.

Back here in the state, the government will be keen to retain the services of Mr Prasad and Mr Aravinda Rao who have proved to be assets when the state is passing through turbulent times. The former chief minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, appointed the two officials to the top posts and his successor Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy did not make any changes. Another senior bureaucrat, Ms Janaki Kondapi, will also benefit from the change in the new retirement age as she is due for retirement in the next few months.

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sayam seetharamaiah 05/06/2011 - 06:34pm

Extension of the age of superannuation upto 65 would benefit the organisation, the nation and the individual as the expertise of the employee is rightly utilised by the organisation and reap its benefit. and enrich. As such government has no problem with unemployment, as there is enough scope for employment for one and all after globlisation.
If an MLA, MP, Minister, President can be accepted beyond 60 years for jobs with much more complicated responsibilities, why not the learned employees?

Nitin Arora 12/05/2011 - 10:41am

Why does the Govt. open so many medical & engineering colleges? Is it not their responsibility to also arrange for employment? It is ridiculous to laud the brains who come up with these ideas. Has anyone tried to ever ponder as to what is the real motive behind it is? You talk tall of the youth but when it comes to implementation, the mind works vice-versa. There is no end; afterwards somebody will come up with a proposal for enhancing to 65. The retirement age should rather be brought back to 58.

Dr. G.Prabhakar 05/05/2011 - 03:01pm

Increase of retirement age will put more burden on the government .Government in the interest of the unemployed youth should desist from this nasty idea to increase the retirement age. if govi. is keen to increase the age from 60 to 62 they should implement only from April 2012 not in the middle of the year.

K.S. Rawat 29/04/2011 - 02:22pm

If at all there is a move to enhance the retirement age to 62 years, then there should not be any pick and chose policy of the government. It should be done forthwith so that such of those who are immediately retiring should get its benefit if at all it has to come. The public sector undertakings of the Government of India do not have pensions and the retired personnel has only to depend on the CPF accumumulation/gratuity etc. which is not enough in the present day context of spiralling prices of daily use commodities. Hence retirement age if extended would be of a great help particularly to the employees of the public sector undertakings where there is no relief by way of pension.

indian 18/04/2011 - 09:44pm

Government in the interest of the unemployed youngsters should desist from this nasty idea to increase the retirement age. Infusing fresh talent in the system is always the most scientific way to foster development and not hang on with oldies, however experienced they are. To fight a war with an enemy nation courage and zeal will be better exhibited by a newly recruited officer or soldier rather than the senior. To accommodate a few chamchas the govt should not carry deadweight of all and sundry along. Such capable persons can always be advisers or effective social workers performing outside the realm of government.

SARAJ 26/03/2011 - 11:54am

Increase of retirement age will put more burden to the government since the salary and ither allowances to be paid for extra 12 months just equal to the total pensionary benefits and the govt going to grant settlement benefit also at the time of retirement. At age of 58 to 62 nobody is willing to work or are not able to work due to age factor and the increase of retirement is utter waste. Instead the age may reduced to 58 which will very helpful to the younger generation. For salary now paid to the people going to retire, govt may appoint three candidates in lower grades which will lead to reduce the unemployment to some extent.

roma 22/03/2011 - 09:55pm

Good move. But should extend to all Central Govt employees. Why only to IAS/IPS ?

yadav 22/03/2011 - 12:30pm

Good initiative by govt to retain the experienced both in administrative and technical fields.

rajeev 21/03/2011 - 02:23pm

It will be a wise decision to retain the experienced manpower not only in the secretary level but also in technical fields.

P.S.Nain 16/03/2011 - 09:37am

Good news, if implemented for all CGE.

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