Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday asserted that the decision to increase the retirement age of government employees to 60 years from 58 will have no impact on the job prospects of the youths in the state.
“We have done a lot of exercise before deciding to extend the retirement age of our employees. We are therefore aware of its implications on the employment front.
“We will create enough job opportunities in the government for our youths during these two years no matter regular employees retire or not.
“In no way our youths will feel the impact of the decision to increase the retirement age,” Khandu explained in response to queries from former ministers and MLAs.
Former ministers and MLAs lead by W L Wanglat, Tsering Gyurme, Talo Mugli, M R Dodum and Nima Tsering called on the chief minister at his office and discussed several issues confronting the government and the state besides issues pertaining to welfare of former members of the Assembly, an official release informed.
One of the issues that was discussed in detail was the recent decision of the government to increase the retirement age of government employees to 60 years from 58 with effect from January 1, 2018.
The chief minister explained to the senior leaders that the government had to take the decision to maintain uniformity in retirement rules.
Khandu informed that one section of state government employees were already retiring at the age of 60, therefore to maintain uniformity the state government took the decision to fix the retirement age at 60 for all. (PTI)
