Keeping in view the ban on promotion and the number of employees decreasing every month, the state government is contemplating to increase the retirement age of employees to 65 years before the assembly elections next year.
Rameshchandra Sharma, chairman of the State Employees Welfare Committee (with the status of Minister of State), has written a note-sheet regarding this. In this, it has been recommended to increase the retirement age of employees from 62 to 65.
The government has announced to fill more than one lakh vacant posts in the next one year. Preparation has also started regarding this, but the process is complicated. In such a situation, the employees have demanded to increase the retirement age.
Taking forward this demand, the chairman of the State Employees Welfare Committee has written a note sheet. They have argued that medical education, higher education, technical education and health departments already have a provision to retire employees at 65 years. In such a situation, similar provision can be made for the employees of other departments also.
The Chairman has written that there have been no new recruitments in the last years. Thousands of posts are vacant in various departments. Hundreds of employees are retiring every month. They say that employees will also be needed to conduct the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections.