Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu today asserted that the decision to increase the retirement age of government employees to 60 years from 58 will have no impact on the job prospects of the youths in the state.
"We have done a lot of exercise before deciding to extend the retirement age of our employees. We are therefore aware of its implications on the employment front.
"We will create enough job opportunities in the government for our youths during these two years no matter regular employees retire or not.
"In no way our youths will feel the impact of the decision to increase the retirement age," Khandu explained in response to queries from former ministers and MLAs.
Former ministers and MLAs lead by W L Wanglat, Tsering Gyurme, Talo Mugli, M R Dodum and Nima Tsering called on the chief minister at his office and discussed several issues confronting the government and the state besides issues pertaining to welfare of former members of the Assembly, an official release informed.
One of the issues that was discussed in detail was the recent decision of the government to increase the retirement age of government employees to 60 years from 58 with effect from January 1, 2018.
The chief minister explained to the senior leaders that the government had to take the decision to maintain uniformity in retirement rules.
He informed that one section of state government employees were already retiring at the age of 60, therefore to maintain uniformity the state government took the decision to fix the retirement age at 60 for all.
When one of the senior members expressed the concern of youths that the decision would deprive them of government jobs for the next two years, Khandu assured it would not be the case.
He informed that the government is taking a time period of six months from July 1 to December 31 this year to undertake a massive and in-depth exercise within the government structure to normalise the impact of the decision and keep avenues open for educated unemployed youths.
"This is a time taking - energy consuming exercise. So we have availed six months' time. There is no other reason and people shouldn't take it otherwise," Khandu said on making effective the decision effective from January 1 next year.
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