Retirement age
The present non-political government is very passionately considering extension of retirement age limit of the government service holders from 57 to 62 years. It is indeed a very encouraging and pragmatic consideration of the present government in the light of the increased life expectancy of the people due to availability of better healthcare facilities. I personally welcome the decision but in view of limited job opportunities in public sectors, I would like to take the privilege of expressing my reservation without any prejudice on raising the retirement age to 62 years for the following reasons:
Bangladesh is a developing country and its economy has been very steadily moving upwards but still there are many impediments which are hindering expected economic growth (GDP), basically resulting from man made political disturbances and natural disaster. Therefore job opportunities are not expanding fast.
Every year a large number of fresh young job seekers with graduate and post -graduate degrees enter the job market from public and private universities and most of them are keen to appear in the BCS exams as their first choice or to join in other government departments and corporation instead of private agencies. Of course, the situation is changing with the expansion of private sectors but still fresh graduates prefer to join public sector and services.
If the retirement age is raised to 62 years, the job opportunities would come down to some extent and that will have consequential effect on the age limit to apply for any such job and hence the entry age should also be increased to 30 years simultaneously.
Therefore, I would like to urge the government to consider enhancing retirement age of the government employees to 60 years instead of 62.
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