Compulsory Retirement, Reduction of Retirement Age Below 60, Re-employment and Delay in Promotion: DoPT’s clarification
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Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
05-December-2019 14:49 IST
Compulsory Retirement of Government Employees
As per the information/data uploaded by the different
Ministries/Departments/Cadre Controlling Authorities (CCAs) on Probity
Portal followed by the rectification requests made by some Ministries/
Departments/CCAs, during the period from July, 2014 to October, 2019 (as
on 25.11.2019), provisions of FR 56(j) have been invoked against a
total number of 96 Group ‘A’ officers and 126 Group ‘B’ officers of
different Ministries/Departments.
Presently, there is no proposal in the Government to reduce age of retirement of Government employees below 60 years.
Re-employment of the Government servant has no bearing on the pension
fixed at the time of his retirement on attaining the age of
superannuation.
Department of Personnel & Training has been impressing upon all the
Ministries/Departments to convene the Departmental Promotion Committee
(DPC) meetings at prescribed interval (by laying down a time schedule
for the purpose) to draw panels which could be utilized for making
promotion against the vacancies occurring during the course of a year.
The Ministries/Departments have been further advised to initiate action
to fill up the existing as well as anticipated vacancies well in advance
of the expiry of the previous panel by collecting relevant documents
like seniority list, Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR) etc. for
placing before the DPCs so as to obviate the problem of delays in
promotion.
The provisions under FR 56(j) also ensure to improve efficiency in Government.
This information was provided by the Union Minister of State
(Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS
PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and
Space, DrJitendra Singh in written reply to a question in RajyaSabha
today.
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