Retirement age
Retirement age in government jobs has to be reconsidered with the changes in living standard, general health improvement and dearth of skilled and proficient manpower in the country.
Surging unemployment of the educated youth has also to be kept in mind in up scaling retirement ages. Considering all these, retirement age of the government employees could be raised to 60 at most. At the same time retirement age of the judges/ justices should be brought down to 65 (not 67 as at present, which was unreasonably up scaled, though, with a political motive by the previous BNP-Jamaat government). Retirement at the age of 65 should not also be straight forward. After attaining the age of 60 for judges/ justices, an objective criterion for assessing their judicial deliveries and health condition has to be fixed to allow them to continue up to the age of 65. University teachers' retirement age is 60 straight forward and up to 65, subject to fulfilment of some health condition requirements.
Of course, almost everyone takes the advantage of retirement at 65 in the universities. There should also be some objective criteria including number of scientific publications outside the serving university and in foreign journals, and classes taken per week during their full professorship to be qualified to continue up to 65. The age range of 65 should be selective any way. Wholesale up scaling to 65 is abused now as everyone gets that opportunity and the quality of service is neglected during the extended period. The government and the University Grants Commission (to harmonise retirement ages at the universities) should look into the matter of re-fixing retirement age seriously and establish the criteria for assessing delivery of services during the extended period for judges/ justices and university professors.
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