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| Extensions to retiring officials to create deadwood, stooges | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 2: The tendency to extend services of civil servants beyond the superannuation age is a highly disturbing tendency. The practice makes it obligatory and imperative for the obliged civil servant to act as a pawn in the hands of those who use their influence to prevent timely retirement of such officials.
The State government has been weighing the pros and cons of the proposal to enhance the retirement age from the existing 58 to 60 years in respect of its employees. The main argument extended against such an enhancement by some ministers of the coalition government has been the government's concern for the growing unemployment among the educated, unemployed youths whose numbers have been growing in alarming proportions.
If the State government is seriously worried about the plight of the educated, unemployed millions in the State then how does it reconcile this concern with the decision to preferentially extend the services of some retiring officers beyond the permissible limit?
It is common knowledge that many civil servants garner political influence by wooing some ministers so that their intervention comes handy when the officials near their retirement age. In recent days the State government has given extensions to some retiring officials thereby throwing to wind the accepted norm that nobody should be allowed to serve beyond the normal period fixed for his/her service tenure.
Serious problems arise when some officials are favoured by extending their service tenure beyond the mandatory years. Those who are favoured through this abnormal practice cannot be expected to discharge their duties without fear or favour. How can a civil servant act with fortitude when he owes his/ her very existence in the service beyond the mandatory period to the blessings of some political masters?
It is in fairness to seniority/promotion rules of civil services and also the alarming problem of unemployment that nobody should be favoured by extending his/her service period beyond the mandatory age. There is always the right time for everybody to retire and civil servants who have put in the mandatory years must be told to retire with grace and not roam around garnering political influence to endlessly continue their service period. |
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