Haryana govt raises age limit for starting govt services to 42

In poll-bound Haryana, the state government continued to rain sops, with the Cabinet today deciding to increase the age limit for entry into government services by two years to 42.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state Cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda here this evening, an official release said.
"The decision to increase this age limit has been taken on the basis of general public demand as it was felt that with grant of two years of re-employment to government employees after the superannuation of retirement, the retirement of the employee is likely to be seized for two years.

"As a result of it, there would be less chances of government jobs for unemployed persons.
"Therefore, it would be in the interest of unemployed persons to grant them similar benefit to apply for government jobs by raising the age limit for entry into government service from 40 to 42 years across all categories," the release said.
Hooda, who has been holding a series of Cabinet meetings during the past one month announcing sops for various sections, told reporters today that the Cabinet has also decided that full pension will be allowed on completion of 20 years instead of 28 years of service.

This will be effective from the date of notification of the order.

The Chief Minister also said the state government has decided to grant pay scales to its employees and pension to its pensioners on Punjab pattern with effect from November 1, 2014.
Hooda said now the government employees would retire at the age of 60 years instead of 58 as the Cabinet has approved to increase the age of retirement on superannuation by two years for all categories of posts, but in case of Class IV posts, this age limit would be 62 years.
The Chief Minister said the government has increased the monthly social security pensions, including that of eunuchs and the dwarfs, from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500.