Haryana Government’s sub-committee, constituted to study the different aspects for raising the retirement age of its employees from 58 to 60 years, has sought detailed information from the Chief Secretary’s office about all categories of posts in the state.
The sub-committee headed by Finance Minister Capt. Abhimanyu held its first meeting on Monday.
Capt. Abhimanyu, while talking to the mediapersons after the meeting said, we would seek the Chief Minister’s approval to enhance the term of Committee upto June 30, which was constituted for a period of one month on February 17 this year.
He said that next meeting of the committee would be held on May 24.
The Minister said that the committee has asked the Chief Secretary DS Dhesi to provide detailed information about all categories of posts from group A to D including category-wise authorized strength, filled up and going to be vacant upto December 31, 2017.
Capt Abhimanyu said that there are about one lakh vacancies in different departments in the state and about 15,000 employees are retired every year which cause adverse impact on functioning of the departments.
The government had already decided to increase the retirement age of doctors’ upto 65 years. The retirement age of group D employees, blind, physically challenged and Judicial Officers is 60 years. In addition, State Awardees in Education Department were also being allowed to continue till the age of 60 years, he added.
The sub-committee was constituted in February to study the possibility of increasing the retirement age of government employees to 60 years from 58 years. Other members in the committee included Health Minister Anil Vij and Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Krishan Kumar Bedi.
While the panel was supposed to submit its report within a month, the first meeting was held on Monday only. Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Krishan Kumar Bedi and Chief Secretary attended the meeting.