Report on Reducing the Retirement Age in the Public Sector
You are a reporter of the Hindustan Times. One day you happened to attend a seminar on ‘Case for Reducing the Retirement Age in the Public Sector from 60 to 55’, organised by the ‘Society of Public Sector Employees’. Write a report on this seminar in not more than 100 words for publication in the Newspaper.
Reducing the Retirement Age in the Public Sector
New Delhi, 10th July, 2022
(From our staff reporter)
A very exhilarating seminar on reducing the retirement age in Public Sector from 60 to 55 was organized at Sapru House yesterday by the ‘Society of Public Sector Employees’. Eminent jurists and legal experts participated in the seminar and spoke vehemently against the reduction of the retirement age and they compared the employees with the politicians who have no age limit for their retirement. They advocated that they can work with more zeal and zest, with more responsibility and sincerity than the modern youth and the politicians. On the other side government advocated that by reducing the retirement age, they will be opening avenues for unemployed youths.
The employment among the youth rather posed a greater threatening to the nation. They can never be compared with politicians as after retirement they can too join politics. It was also pleaded that this will be less costly for the exchequer to recruit new men in the Public Sector. After a heating debate, a consensus was arrived at to fix the retirement age in Public Sector to 58. The recommendations will be sent to the Government for being looked into. The society also asserts that if the Government does not agree to the consensus arrived at, the association of the public sector employees can go to the court and resort to the strikes and other direct actions in the matter.