Retirement age
I would like to draw the government's kind attention to the news report on the above subject published in the 'Daily Prothom Alo' (page no. 24 & 23, dated 25 December '08) and would like to say for your kind consideration that if the proposal for enhancement of retirement age limit as recommended in the Secretariat meeting is not acceptable due to any obvious reason, the problem in question can be easily solved by an alternative method without creating any further complications. In this regard, it may be mentioned that in accordance with the prevailing rules, the employees being appointed at the age of 18 are getting a total service period of (57-18)=39 years and the employees being appointed at the age of 30 are getting a total service period of (57-30)=27 years. Thus the latecomers in service are being deprived of their required service duration. Similarly, those in the freedom fighters' quota being employed in govt. services at the age of 32 are also deprived and they are being compelled to go on retirement before completion of their children's education. So, to remove this disparity including all dissimilarities as stated in the above recommendation, an alternative rule acceptable to all should be introduced by fixing up the total service period on average basis.
Thus the total service period could be fixed for the general employees at 33 years and for those recruited in the freedom fighters' quota it should be up to (33+02)=35 years. Then none will suffer any loss and no adverse effect will fall upon the unemployment problem since everyone will be on retirement after completing the same service period and in this case 'First in, First out' (FIFO) method will come into force and it will also maintain congruity with the maximum service limit. So, by accepting the above alternative method, the problem can be easily solved and at the same time unemployment can be reduced to some extent by extending the prevailing recruitment age limit up to 32 years since as per the above alternative method everybody will get the same service period and it will not hamper national interest at all.
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