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| Cabinet to decide retirement age: Rather | | Cabinet Sub Committee meeting soon | | Early Times Report
srinagar, May 31: The government is likely to call a meeting of Cabinet Sub-Committee (CSC) headed by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather on enhancement of retirement age of government employees from 58 to 60 years very soon.
Ali Mohammad Sagar, minister for rural development said: "The government is seriously considering the enhancement of retirement age of government employees and a meeting of Cabinet Sub Committee will be called very soon."
He said that National Conference government never wanted a confrontationist approach to deal with the demands put forth by the government employees. "However, there are many factors that are to be taken into consideration," Sagar said.
Meanwhile, finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather said that the government has fulfilled almost all genuine demands put forth by the government employees. "But the decision on enhancement of retirement age is to be taken by the state cabinet. However, there will be deliberations and pros and cons would be discussed before taking any decision on enhancement of retirement age," Rather told
Meanwhile, Abdul Qayoom Wani, president Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) said that the government is deliberating over the issue but has not sofar reached to any conclusion. "What I know is that the demand of enhancement in retirement age is in active consideration of government but I apprehend that they should not lose more time. We have already chalked out a programme and we cannot sit on that plan silently," Wani told KNS. Sources said that the EJAC leadership is already in touch with the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, CSC members including Taj Mohi-ud-Din, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Sham Lal Sharma, Mir Saifullah and Abdul Rahim. The increase in retirement age has been a long-pending demand of the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC), an amalgam of several employees unions, which recently deferred protests in Jammu as a 'goodwill gesture'.
In February this year, the government had asked the Chief Secretary to talk to the employees' leadership and issue the necessary directions to chalk out a proposal on the enhancement of retirement age taking all the prerequisites into consideration. |
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