New Delhi: There is no proposal to either raise or reduce the
retirement age of central government employees from the present 60 years, Lok
Sabha was informed today.
“No, madam,” Minister of State for Personnel
Jitendra Singh said in his reply to a question on whether government proposes
to increase the retirement age of central government employees.
His reply was the same to another part of the question on
whether there is a proposal to fix the retirement age at 58 years.
In the run up to the Delhi assembly polls, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi had on two occasions scoffed at suggestions that his government
planned to reduce the retirement age.
Terming it as a “misinformation campaign”, he had told the
electorate that lies were being spread.
The speculation of hike
in retirement age had been in circulation since the last days of the previous
UPA II government.
PTI
