The central
government has strongly denied the allegations which said that center is
considering reducing the retirement age of the government employees to 50
years. The HRD ministry said that there
is no such move to reduce the retirement age.
Union
Minister of State Personnel Dr. Jitendra Singh categorically denied the 'rumors'
by saying that "there are certain motivated elements which have been over
the last few days, time and again planting such disinformation in a section of
media and attributing it to the government sources or DoP&T".
Considering
the constraints of the lockdown, he said that DOPT had postponed the last date
for filing of the Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR) by the government
officials.
He also said
that the dates of IAS/Civil Services interview/personality test along with the
Civil Services Preliminary Test will be announced after May 3.
Dr. Singh
also said that last week there was news of government imposing 30% reduction in
the pension and discontinue pensions of elders above 80 years of age. However,
as of 31st March, there is not a single pensioner whose pension was
not deposited in his account.
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