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| Raise retirement age alongwith job avenues ? | | | Does the current political,financial and social scenario warrants raising the retirement age of Government employees from 58 to 60 ? The state Government thinks so because it has constituted a committee to examine the issue. The seven-member committee is headed by Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal,and its report would be submitted to the cabinet subcommittee constituted to review the employees demand for hiking the retirement age by two years.
Well before discussing the financial implications of the move to raise the retirement age it is important to highlight the constitutional implications. Invariably there has been a demand for greater integration of the state of Jammu and Kashmir with rest of the country.
And if the state Government has allowed various central laws to be applicable in Jammu and Kashmir why should it not then accept the central model on retirement age?
As far as the central services are concerned employees retire at the age of 60 years.Hence those among the employees who want the state to adopt the central model have a point and that too when the state has accepted quota for its employees for promotion to central services.It is the result of this acceptance that one finds a large number,in fact a bigger number of officers as IAS or IPS promotees.
Employees have another genuine point.They say if the state Government implemented the 6th pay commission recommendations why then it should dither on raising the retirement age of its employees to 60 years ?But there is another important issue that has been the main factor responsible for the state Government's unwillingness to raise the retirement age of the employees by two years.
It is the growing problem of unemployment.At present there are about six lakh unemployed youth registered with the employment exchanges in the state.And if the retirement age of the employees was raised by two years it is likely to increase the level of unemploymnt problem. However,the financial experts view the entire issue differently.
They believe that once the retirement age is raised by two years the Government may not have to increase the pension bill for another two years.They say that though the state Government is supposed to pay full wages to the employees for another period of two years but during these two years there would be no major increase in the number of new employees getting jobs.
Now that the Government has introduced a scheme under which employees may not get full pensionary benefits after their increase in retirement age may not be a drain on the state exchequer in the long run.But those who are opposed hiking the retirement age argue that it may defeat the employment package that the state Government has framed for resolving the problem of unemployment.
Those educated youth who are registered with employment exchanges say that they want immediate resolution to the unemployment problem. They explain once the retirement age was increased by two years it would mean blocking of several thousand posts in different Departments for two years.
What seems to worry the unemployed youth is that job avenues in the private sector within Jammu and Kashmir is too meagre to employ a few hundred educated youth per year.It has been seen that the over one dozen public sector corporations are already in the red with little scope for opening jobs for the unemployed youths. Hence over 90 per cent unemployed youth bank on Government jobs. This makes it mandatory for the state Government to strengthen industrial sector and persuade the centre for reserving quota for educated youth from the state in the Armed Forces, paramilitary forces and central public sector undertakings. |
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