No move to reduce retirement age of central govt employees

New Delhi: There is no move to bring down the retirement age of central government employees, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Sunday, refuting reports in a section of media that there was a proposal to retire the employees early.
Central government staff retire at the age of 60. Strongly refuting the reports that the government has moved a proposal for reducing the retirement age of government employees to 50 years, the minister said, “There is no such move to reduce the retirement age nor (there) has been such a proposal discussed or contemplated at any level in the government,” according to an official communiqué.
Singh said there are certain motivated elements which have been planting such disinformation time and again in a section of media over the last few days and attributing it to the government sources or the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
He said each time a prompt rebuttal is sought to be made in order to clear the confusion in the minds of stakeholders.
Singh said that it was unfortunate that at a time the country is going through the coronavirus crisis, there are certain elements and vested interests which try to underplay all the good works done by the government by planting such media stories, according to the communiqué. (PTI)