Members of the Odisha Cooperative Employees’ Federation on Sunday said they would stage a dharna in front of the office of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies here on October 29 if their superannuation age is not enhanced to 60 years by then.
“While retirement age of the employees of State Cooperative bodies like Markfed, TDCC and OSCMM have been increased from 58 years to 60 years, the employees of Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies, Central Cooperative Banks and State Cooperative Banks have been deprived of it,” said federation general secretary Digambar Nayak, informing that the decision to resort to stir was taken at the federation’s executive body meeting.
The federation has also demanded that the superannuation age be enforced retrospectively from June 28 the day from which the retirement age of all State Government employees enhanced from 58 years to 60 years. Among others Sudhansu Kumar Padhi, Padmanav Ranisingh, Nilakanth Dash, Niranjana Dash, Kailash Sahoo, Gourang Pradhan, Dillip Pradhan, Swapnasekhar Das Prafulla Swain, Niranjan Prusty and Pradyumna Biswar attended the meeting.