No proposal to reduce the retirement age from 60 to 58 years
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
No reduction in retirement age
There is no proposal under consideration of Government to reduce the retirement age from 60 to 58 years for its employees.
The retirement age for Central Government employees was revised from 58 to 60 years in 1997 on the basis of recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission.
The Centre’s total wages and salaries bill for its employees for the year 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 is Rs. 85,963.50 crore, Rs. 92,264.88 crore and Rs. 1,04,759.71 crore, respectively.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to Sardar Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Dr. T Subbarami Reddy and Smt. Ambika Soni in Rajya Sabha, today.
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Govt should search for another sources to creat new jobs in govt established industry .Reduction of retirement age will not solve unemployment problem
Retirement age from 60 years to 58 years will not slove the unemployment because govt will not fullfill the post insted of retired employees. Now govt should search other ways to creat new posts.
Well, then why it was so discussed?