CG employees may get 3-4 times the salaries of their private sector
counterparts, especially at the lower-to-medium levels, but the security
of tenure that they enjoyed is now under threat because of the
compulsory retirement threat.
A study for the 7th Pay Commission found a fresh government nurse earned
3.4 times her private sector counterpart, a teacher 2.7 times and a
driver 2.3 times. While there was always a rule to compulsorily retire
bureaucrats, the rule applies to only those who are at least 50 years old – on grounds of either corruption or inefficiency, this has rarely been used.
According to The Economic Times that reported the use of an obscure Rule 56(j) to sack 15 customs and central excise officials —including two at the level of commissioners—this was last invoked three decades ago.
Indeed, a few months before it demitted office in 2014, the UPA
government reiterated the rule, but it did precious little about it. The
NDA reissued the order last September, but made its intentions clear
since, while doing so, the order excerpted various Supreme Court
judgments on this – in other words, CG employees were warned that the
highest court in the land had ruled in favour of this in the past.
In the case of State of Gujarat vs Umedbhai M Patel, the SC had ruled
that “whenever the services of a public servant are no longer useful to
the general administration, the officer can be compulsorily retired for
the sake of public interest”. It then went on to say, according to the
DoPT circular, “For better administration, it is necessary to chop off
dead wood, but the order of compulsory retirement can be passed after
having due regard to the entire service record of the officer.”
Since the exercise is believed to have been kicked off at the instance
of the Prime Minister’s Office, chances are that several more employees
may be shown the door.
Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/
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