Bhopal,
\nMadhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday announced raising the retirement age of state government employees to 62 years from the current 60 years.<\/p>\n
He made the announcement while speaking to reporters here today. He, however, did not disclose details of this decision. There are about five lakh regular government employees in the state.<\/p>\n
The opposition Congress, accusing the government of \u201cdeceiving\u201d the state\u2019s unemployed youth by increasing the retirement age, demanded that such youth be given a \u201cberozgari bhatta\u201d (unemployment allowance).<\/p>\n
Replying to a question on the Supreme Court\u2019s order related to the promotion of state government employees, Chouhan said, \u201cSeveral state government employees are not able to get promotion due to the apex court\u2019s order in a case related to \u2018reservation in promotion\u2019 pending with the Supreme Court. We will not allow any employee to retire without him getting his due promotion. This is why we have decided to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The state government had made a provision for reservation for SC\/ST employees in promotion, which was set aside by the Madhya Pradesh High Court.<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s appeal against the order is pending in the Supreme Court with the latter ordering a status quo. This, officials said, has kept on hold promotions of state government employees.<\/p>\n
Chouhan expressed hope that Supreme Court would take a decision on it within next two years.<\/p>\n
Attacking the government, the opposition Congress said the decision was not going to help employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision is not going to benefit employees. On the contrary, this would deprive younger officials and employees from getting a promotion. The Chief Minister should now announce an unemployment allowance of Rs 2,000 per month to jobless educated youth of the state,\u201d said Ajay Singh, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly.<\/p>\n
He added that the state government should address the problems of contract employees, who are staging protests.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Berojgar Sena, an outfit of the educated unemployed, has opposed the government\u2019s decision and called it \u201ccheating\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cChouhan has deceived 1.5-crore educated unemployed youth of Madhya Pradesh by increasing the retirement age of state government employees. This decision will harm the BJP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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