Raising the Retirement age of Soldiers below the rank of officers in Defence Forces

Raising the Retirement age of Soldiers below the rank of officers in Defence Forces

Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley submitted a report to a question in Lok Sabha on 18th July 2014 about the retirement age of soldiers below the rank of officers in Defence Forces. He said, there is presently no such proposal to increase the retirement age of soldiers below the rank of officers in the defence forces. And the details of the retirement age of various category of officers and soldiers in the defence forces (excluding Armed Forces Medical Services) at present, are as under:

ARMY :

Officers		Other Ranks
General	62 years or3 years of tenure whichever is earlier	Sub Major	54 years or 34 years* of service or4 years of tenure whichever is earlier
Lt. Gen	60 years	Subedar	52 years or 30 years*of service
Maj. Gen	58 years	Naib Subedar	52 years or 28 years*of service
Brigadier	56 years	Havildar	49 years or 26 years*of service
Colonel	54 years	Naik	49 years or 24 years*of service
-	-	Sepoy Gp (X)	42 years or 19 years*of service
-	-	Sepoy Gp (Y)	48 years or 22 years*of service

* Service limit includes extension of 2 years by screening.

Note 1: In all categories below officer ranks, age limit or service limit whichever occurs earlier is applicable for retirement. Note 2: Above information does not cover officers of certain specialised branches.

Navy:

Officers		Sailors
Admiral	62 years or3 years of tenure whichever is earlier	Master Chief Petty Officer (MCPO) I and II	57 years
Vice Admiral	60 years	Chief Petty Officer (CPO) and below	52 years
Rear Admiral	58 years	-	-
Commodore/ Captain (Education)	57 years	-	-
Commodore/ Captain	56 years	-	-
Commander	54 years	-	-
Lt. Commander and below	52 years	-	-

Air Force: 

Retirement age of Airmen is 57 years. Retirement age for officers is as given below:
(i) Permanent Commissioned Officers:

Air Chief Marshal	62 years or 3 years of tenure whichever is earlier
Air Marshal	60 years
Air Vice Marshal	58 years
Air Commodore	(i)   56 years for Flying Branch
	(ii)  57 years for other branches
Group Captain (Select)	(i)   54 years for Flying Branch
	(ii)  57 years for other branches
Wing Commander and Group Captain (Time Scale)	(i)   52 years for Flying Branch.
	(ii) 54 years for Ground Duty Branches other than education and meteorological branches.

(iii) 57 years for Education and Meteoro-logical branches.

(ii) Branch Commissioned Officers: 57 years. 

Various measures taken by the Government for the welfare of soldiers and officers include improvement in living and working conditions through provision of better infrastructure and facilities, additional family accommodation, facilities for movement of troops from border areas and liberalised leave policy, deployment of psychological counsellors for psychological counselling, provisions for medical and health care as per extant rules, provisions to address the educational needs of service personnel and their wards, Group Insurance Scheme, Canteen Stores Department (CSD) facilities, establishing a grievance redressal mechanism and Schemes / Programmes for pre and post retirement training, re-employment and self-employment of ex-servicemen etc.

 

Source: CGEN.in

50% DA Merger, Retirement Age 62 and Interim Relief – Cabinet is likely to clear some of these demands..!

50% DA Merger, Retirement Age 62 and Interim Relief – Cabinet is likely to clear some of these demands..!

 This week may bring cheer to central employees and pensioners

Central Government employees and pensioners will find reasons to celebrate this week. The union cabinet is likely to clear some long awaited demands for it’s staff in the next meeting later this week The F.M., currently on foreign tour, likely to return India on 26th February and after which cabinet meeting is likely to take place.

According to information available with us, merger of 50% D.A., an additional hike of 10% D.A. from 01.01.2014, granting of Interim Relief and enhancing retirement age to 62 years are under the consideration of Govt. and some of these are to be approved in the next cabinet meeting.


As the notification of loksabha poll may be issued in the first week of March, this would be the last cabinet meeting before the code of conduct comes into force.

So the central employees and pensioners may definitely hope for some bonanza to be announced this week.

Source: www.paycommissionupdate.blogspot.in
[http://paycommissionupdate.blogspot.in/2014/02/this-week-may-bring-cheer-to-central.html]

Retirement Age 62 - All set to hike central retirement age to 62 years

 Retirement Age 62 - All set to hike central retirement age to 62 years

All set to hike central retirement age to 62 years

It may sound like ridiculous as number of times articles regarding this topic has published in different websites and newspapers. But as per our sources and media reports, centre finally decided to hike retirement age to 62 years. The process has received PM's nod and awating cabinet approval which is likely to be obtained in the next meeting.

The newly set up seventh CPC has recommended this hike in an interim report which got Govt. approval.

As per information available with us, this move will not benefit those who are going to be superannuated in this month or those who are already in extension.

Source : www.paycommissionupdate.blogspot.in
[http://paycommissionupdate.blogspot.in/2014/02/all-set-to-hike-central-retirement-age.html]

Retirement Age 62 - Proposal for raising Retirement Age to 62 waits for Cabinet Nod

Retirement Age 62 - Proposal for raising Retirement Age to 62 waits for Cabinet NodRetirement Age 62 - Proposal for raising Retirement Age to 62 waits for Cabinet Nod

 We have heard it so many times . Every one of us got tired of hearing this rumour again and again. But this time this news may not fade away just as a rumour.

Because the series of events that had happened until now listed below are telling that it will be come true soon.

1. Though there is no any demand from any corner to raise the retirement age of central government employees to 62 years, a parliamentary panel has recommended a proposal to increase the retirement age of government servants to 65 years. The report of the standing committee of Parliament on social justice and empowerment tabled in the Parliament on 7th of this month. Ample justification also was given for their recommendation to increase the retirement age.

2. A reliable source close to a Cabinet Minister told that, the Cabinet Minister himself, while addressing to the Trade Union Wing of his party told ‘the Central Government would announce some important decisions in respect of central government employees within a week or two. This will be good news for all the central government employees.’

3. A close ally of a Central Minister told that, in a meeting held with the leaders of the state unit of his party day before yesterday, the Minister told the Leaders ‘a proposal of increasing retirement age of central government employees to 62 years has been waiting for Cabinet nod. It is expected that the cabinet will clear this proposal within a week. After it gets the Cabinet Nod, the formal announcement will be made by Central Government before the Election announcement.’

The above information clearly indicates that some Good News for Central Government Employees are waiting to be announced within a week or two. All the central government employees know what that good news is!

 The expected good news will be either increasing retirement age or Merging 50% DA with Basic Pay or Both!

Source: www.gservants.com
[http://www.gservants.com/2014/02/17/proposal-raising-retirement-age-62-waits-cabinet-nod/]

Retirement age at 62 - No announcement reg this in today's Independence PM's address speech

Retirement age at 62 - No announcement reg this in today's Independence PM's address speechSeveral thousands of Central Government Employee's expectation to know about the extension of retirement age has not yet been concluded which is believed to be announced today in PM's Independence day speech.

As everyone knows, the government has planned to extend the retirement age of all central government employees by two years — from the current 60 to 62 years. The department of personnel and training (DoPT) has also already begun the work to implement the same.

Last time, the government extended the retirement age of central government employees in 1998. It was also a two-year extension from 58 to 60. This was preceded by the implementation of the 5th Pay Commission.

Employees are now eagerly look forward to know about the decision on this matter of Retirement age and hoping to get a fruitful solution.

Click here to see the entire address speech of Prime Minister for Independence Day

Retirement Age 62 - Prime Minister likely to declare on his Independence Day speech

Retirement Age 62 - Prime Minister likely to declare on his Independence Day speech

According to the media report, important and controversial announcement may be declared on 15th August, 2013 by the Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech. As reported in the media, the nodal department of Central Government, Dopt has finalized the draft proposal in this matter last week.

All central government employees including the employees of state government are expecting the announcement eagerly..!

Source:
http://centralgovernmentemployeesnews.in/2013/08/retirement-age-62-prime-minister-likely-to-declare-on-his-independence-day-speech/

No plan to increase retirement age of Central Government Employees - PTI Report

No plan to increase retirement age of Central Government Employees - PTI Report

New Delhi, Jun 16 (PTI) Central government employees are in for a disappointment as the Centre is at present not considering any move to raise the retirement age to 62 years.

A senior official in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, which acts as nodal department for personnel matters, said there was no such proposal to increase the age for superannuation of government employees.

"There is no proposal to increase the retirement age to 62 from 60 years".

Source: PTI News
[http://www.ptinews.com/news/3724917_-No-plan-to-increase-retirement-age-of-employees-]

An exclusive review of Retirement age 62 for central government employees

An exclusive review of Retirement age 62 for central government employees

It has been seen that one of the long time waging demand of raising the retirement age of government employees has finally caught afire.

Through the Medias and blogging sites re abound with news that the cabinet would announce news regarding the retirement age yet it has not been finalizes.

Even then it has been come to known that a favorable decision would be put forth regarding this issue due to the oncoming lok sabha and three state assembly elections.

In India the retirement ages of most of the state government employees range from 58 to 60. This is low in comparison to the government employees of foreign nation.

We shall see the effect of raising the retirement age in the following passage.

Advantage

1. If only 7th pay commission would be implemented in the year 2016 those retiring in the year span 2014 -2016 would be greatly benefitted.

2. Economically the employees would be in better position due to this rise of the age of superannuation

3. The pension amount and the other beneficiaries would also increase along side

4. There this chance of imparting fruitful experience to the subordinates or new recruit by those benefitted by rise in retirement age

5. More over there is chance of getting an additional MACP by the central govt employees

6. A good health psychological effect would prevail in their minds due to this boon of rising their retirement age and thus removing their fatigue

Disadvantage

1. Promotion would be greatly affected due to no retirement in the long span

2. Unemployment would come in to being due to the increase in retirement age

3. Output of work would be greatly affected if the retirement age of unhealthy employees would be increased.

This announcement would not be received in praise among those searching for employment in general Moreover among the retirement employees this decision is receiving a mixed response as some welcome while others detest it

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT AGE TO BE EXTENDED BY TWO YEARS (2) TO SIXTY TWO(62).

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT AGE TO BE EXTENDED BY TWO YEARS (2) TO SIXTY TWO (62).

The government is planning to extend the retirement age of all central government employees by two years — from the current 60 to 62 years. Sources said that an in-principle decision has been taken in this regard and the department of personnel and training (DoPT) has begun the work to implement the same. A formal announcement to this effect is expected this year itself.

The last time the government extended the retirement age of central government employees was in 1998. It was also a two-year extension from 58. This was preceded by the implementation of the 5th Pay Commission, which had put severe strain on government’s finances. Subsequently, all state governments followed the Centre’s policy by extending the retirement age by two years. Public sector undertakings followed suit too.

Source: www.financialexpress.com

[http://www.financialexpress.com/news/central-govt-employees-retirement-age-to-be-extended-by-2-years-to-62/784342]

Union government requires retirement age 62

Union government requires retirement age 62

The Union Government is seriously considering raising the retirement age to 62 for Central Government employees. Obviously, if the Congress announces this before the Lok Sabha polls, it could expect a sizeable vote share. North Block, which houses the Union Ministry of Finance would be more than happy to have 62 years as the retirement age because for next two years the pension funds can accumulate.

The UPA2 also wants to put the next government in fiscal tight spot, or what is called the War Room effect of the AICC.

Source: www.news.rediff.com
[http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2013/may/27/union-government-wants-retirement-age-62/bb31a983bae7063849ed4600a9e9ffbd]

A brief note of the Ministry of DOPT on New Pension Scheme - Retirement Benefits

A brief note of the Ministry of DOPT on New Pension Scheme - Retirement Benefits

 

The below questions raised by the Hon'ble Member of Parliament Shri.Aswamedh Devi in the Lok Sabha and the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office Shri. V. NARAYANASAMY answered to the question below quoted on 05.12.2012 in the written form as follows...

 

Questions :-

Whether the Union Government employees recruited after January, 2004 are not eligible for retirement benefits such as pension, GPF and gratuity..?

Whether not providing gratuity, pension and GPF facility is a discrimination with employees recruited after January, 2004 as the same is being provided to the employees of private sector..?

Whether the Government proposes to provide all retirement benefits including gratuity to the Government servants recruited after January, 2004..?

 

Answer :-

A new restructured defined contribution pension system for the new entrants to Central Government service, except to the Armed Forces, replacing the system of defined benefit pension including GPF, was notified on 22nd December, 2003. The Government employees appointed on or after 1.1.2004 and governed by the New Pension System can withdraw 60% of their Pension Fund as a lumpsum when they retire and the balance 40% of their wealth is used to purchase an annuity scheme from a life insurance company of their choice, which will pay him/her a monthly pension for the rest of his life. In casethe employees leave the New Pension Scheme prior to age 60, the mandatory anuitization would be 80% of the pension wealth.

 

The monthly annuity under the New Pension Scheme is only a replacement of pension on retirement and family pension on death after retirement. The benefits of Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity (DCRG) and pension/family pension have been provisionally allowed, vide Department of Pension & Pensioners` Welfare OM No. 38/41/06-P&PW(A) dated 5.5.2009, in respect of the Central Government servants covered by the New Pension Scheme in cases where a Government Servant is retired on invalidation/disability and in the case of death of a Government servant in service, on the same rates as are applicable under the old pension scheme, i.e. CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.

 

The details of DCRG payable to employees of Central Government under NPS are as under:

 

(i) The retirement gratuity is payable to the retiring Government servant. A minimum of 5 years qualifying service and eligibility to receive service gratuity/ pension is essential to get this one time lump sum benefit. Retirement gratuity is calculated @ l/4lh of a month`s Basic Pay plus Dearness Allowance drawn before retirement for each completed six monthly period of qualifying service. The maximum retirement gratuity payable is 16 XA times the Basic Pay, subject to a maximum of Rs. 10 lakhs.

 

(ii) If the Government Servant dies while in service, the death gratuity shall be paid to his family at the rates furnished in the table below:

S.No.	Length of Qualifying Service	Rate of Death Gratuity
1.	Less than one year	2 times of emoluments
2.	One year or more but less than 5 years	6 times of emoluments
3.	5 years or more but less than 20 years	12 times of emoluments
4.	20 years or more	Half of emoluments for every completed six monthly period of qualifying service subject to a maximum of 33 times of emoluments.

Maximum amount of Death Gratuity admissible is Rs. 10 lakhs w.e.f. 1.1.2006.

Extension of service of Scientists beyond the age of superannuation under FR56(d)

Extension of service of Scientists beyond the age of superannuation under FR56(d)

No.26012/15/2010-Estt(A-IV)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

New Delhi, dated the 19th December, 2012

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject : Re-Constitution of Department Peer Review Committee for considering the cases for extension of service of Scientists beyond the age of superannuation.

 

The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the Standing Peer Review Committee in respect of Department of Information Technology with the following composition for considering the cases for extension of service of Scientists beyond the age of superannuation under FR56(d).

1. Secretary, Department of Information Technology - Chairman
2. Shri.S.S.Sundaram, Chief Controller, R&D (ECS), DRDO - Member
3. Prof.D.K.Bandyopadhyay, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Govind Singh I P University - Member
4. Shri.S.C.Mishra, Member(Service), DoT - Member
5. Secretary(P), DoP&T or representative of Secretary not below the rank of Additional Secretary - Member

2. The tenure of the Committee will be two years.

3. The Committee will hold biennial meetings, three to four months in advance to consider the proposals for extension of service coming up in the six months block i.e. April-September and October-March so that the ACC gets sufficient time to consider the proposals. The recommendations of the Peer Review Committee for extension of service beyond 60 years and upto 62 years may be submitted to the E.O.Division of DoP&T for obtaining approval of the ACC.

 

4. The Committee will also consider the cases of extension of service beyond 62 years and upto 64 years and the recommendation of the Committee may be submitted to the Establishment Division for placing the same for consideration by the Screening Committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary before obtaining the approval of the ACC.

sd/-

(I.A.Vaidyanathan)

Director(E)

Source: www.persmin.nic.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/26012_15_2010-Estt-A-IV-1.pdf]

Retirement age of KV Teachers - Enhancement of retirement age was not agreed in JCM Meeting held on 18.10.2012

Retirement age of KV Teachers - Enhancement of retirement age was not agreed in JCM Meeting held on 18.10.2012

One of the major demand submitted by the associations of KV Employees to discuss in the JCM Meetings to enhance the retirement age at par with the retirement age of University teachers...

The point has been discussed in the JCM meeting which was held on 18th October 2012, after detailed deliberation on the matter from both sides the Chairperson decided that no parity can be held between the University Teachers and KV Teachers as well. Also it cannot be compared with other State Government teaching employees. Hence, the demand of association does not appear to be acceptable.

The matter discussed at length in the last JCM but was not agreed hence stands dropped.

Proposal of raising the Retirement Age of Government Staffs

Proposal of raising the Retirement Age of Government Staffs

Is raising retirement age of Central Government Employee a threat for employment prospects of youth ?

At the end of Every Year people used to talk about the proposal of raising the retirement age of government servants. Normally the people who are at the verge of retirement from government service are eagerly expecting the government to increase the retirement age. The Government servants especially those who are in the pay structure of Pay band –I will have to face financial burden as the Pension amount they will be paid after commutation will be very meager and it is not sufficient enough to meet their expenses of day to day life. Because the Government employees those who are drawing grade pay of Rs.1800/-, 1900/-, 2000/-, 2400/-and 2800/- will get only around Rs.20000 as the gross salary of every month. It is understood that one cannot lead a financially successful life with this income alone. So many government servants, to run the life, forced to avail loans from where ever they can get. At the end, they are badly in debt at the time of retirement. 

That is why the government servants don’t feel happy about retiring from service. But extending the service of two years from 60 to 62 will not solve all their problems. It will help them to put off facing the financial crisis for at least two years. But the Government does not consider this aspect any way to increase the retirement age of central government employees from 60 to 62.

Extension of Service to  Bureaucrats

The Central Government always wanted to make better use of the knowledge and experience of its Bureaucrats even after their retirement. In other words Government wants to secure their top brass preferably IAS officers by giving service extension. Sometime extending their service for further period of two year is difficult task for the concerned department. Extension in service can be given only in “exceptional circumstances”. For example recently home Ministry wanted to give one year extension to its former Director-General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) as he has done commendable work in his stint . But it was denied by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). However, it was mainly the service rules that led to the ACC declining Home Ministry’s proposal. Normally IAS officers offered multiple service extension.

The Retirement Age of  Professors   

The Central Government has already increased the retirement age of professors in all the central universities from 62 to 65 years, two years back. Before that, the retirement age of professors of Central Universities was 62 with the provision for re-employment for three years after the superannuation. That time there was some allegation that this provision of re-employment was being “misused” by the authorities who took such decisions in an “arbitrary” manner. So Central Government decided to increase the retirement age of Professors to 65 uniformly.

One year extension for state government employees 

Recently the Punjab government’s decided to offer an extension of one year in service to its retiring employees with effect from October 2012 . The condition laid down for this offer was 1.Employees will be given an option to continue at the same salary.2. They will get no increments in salary during the extension period but will get any due promotions. The decision to give the extension was taken to meet the shortage of 35,000 employees who are expected to retire in next one year. Since, the move may affect employment prospects of the youth, the government increased the maximum age limit for recruitment into government service from 37 to 38 years.

The Retirement Age of  Judges

On August 18, 2012, The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, speaking at the 150th year celebrations of the Bombay High Court, said the government was in favour of raising the age of retirement of High Court judges. Presently, Supreme Court judges retire at 65 and High Court judges at 62.

Re engagement of Retired Employees in Railways

Whether it is true or not but it is believed that Railway gave its consensus to raise the retirement age of its employees, as it is already re-engaging their retired employee for daily remuneration after their retirement till the age of 62. It was followed from 1998 with the reference of Railway Board Letter No.E(NG)II/97/RC-4/8 dated 03.02.98. In 2009 the rates of Daily Allowances also revised for engagement of retired employees on daily remuneration basis.

So keeping in view of the entire above aspects one can assume that the state and central governments and some Departments are in fovour of increasing the retirement age of Central and State government employees.

       But Social Activists and youth associations are against this proposal and they expressed their dissatisfaction over this  and telling that the retirement age of central government employees should not be increased to 62 as increasing the retirement age is a threat for employment prospects of the youth.Many of them opined that instead of increasing, the retirement age should be reduced to 58 so that the youngsters will be given opportunity to get into Central government services.

 

Source: Central Government News

http://www.centralgovernmentnews.com/proposal-of-raising-the-retirement-age-of-government-staffs/