Saturday, September 25, 2010

PIL on retirement age of civil servants



PIL on retirement age of civil servants

Lucknow, Sep 24 (PTI) A PIL was filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court today, seeking direction to extend the retirement age of officers of India Civil Services from 60 years to at least 65 years.

Neelendra Pandey, a local social worker, stated in his PIL that he is aggrieved with discrepancies in the retirement policy of different government services.

He said IAS, IPS and IFS officers retire at 60 years, while people of about 80 years and sometime even more continue as President, Prime Minister, Governor and Chief Minister, Minister and MLAs.

Professors and doctors of Central universities and institutions like AIIMS retire at 65 and primary school teachers retire at 62, Pandey said while terming the retirement policies as defective and challenging the same.

He requested the court to direct Central government to consider making a universal retirement policy for all public servants.

Source: PTI



3 comments:

r k panigrahi,  December 10, 2010 at 12:57 PM  

i do agree with the pil.the retirement age should be at least 65 years in case of all central govt servents.these people honestly and quitely working towards the development of the nation,pay their taxes on time and depend mostly on their salary.many govt. servents even run pillar to post to get a post retirement job for running their family as their children are not settled or married.we must submit to the govt.for the same.

padmavathy,  December 10, 2010 at 6:03 PM  

i do agree with the pil.the retirement age should be at least 65 years in case of all central govt servents.these people honestly and quitely working towards the development of the nation,pay their taxes on time and depend mostly on their salary.many govt. servents even run pillar to post to get a post retirement job for running their family as their children are not settled or married.we must submit to the govt.for the same.

sadagopan srinivasan January 2, 2011 at 8:52 PM  

The retirement age should according to me should be 58 years.Then only
more opportunities for educated youngsters will exist.At a time when jobs are shrinking and with alarming unemployment rate it is not wise to increase retirement age.