Official order for retirement out

Dimapur, July 20 (MExN): The department  of Personnel & Administrative Reforms has  issued certain directives connected with the retirement of Nagaland government employees who have completed 35 years of service or 60 years of age.

An office memorandum of the department stated that the state government has taken a decision that all persons holding public employment under the government are to retire on the last day of the month on attaining the age of 60 years, or in which he completes 35 years of public employment, whichever is earlier. There will be some “dislocations” and gaps of administrative and functional structures in all the departments in implementing the Nagaland Retirement from Public Employment (Second Amendment) Act, 2009. 

To fill the vacancies, the department will have to carry out advance exercises. The government will also allow relaxation of the qualifying-year to officiate promotion to the next higher grade, up to minimum of one year in each grade. This will depend on wherever there are vital gaps in the hierarchy of certain departments as a result of the implementation of the Act. For this, all departments are directed to submit proposals to the P&AR department for consideration of promotion under the special dispensation. They are then to be put up to the Civil Services Board (CSB). 

However, for employees of the Police and Forest departments, the proposals may be directly put up by the departments to the Police Establishment Board and Forest Establishment Boards respectively instead of the CSB. If and when necessity arises, some posts may be down-graded to suitable levels to enable better utilization of cadre posts, with prior approval of the CSB, to be obtained through the P&AR  department.

As a first step of this exercise, all departments have been requested to submit the list of information according to the sample formats to the P&AR department within five days and before July 24. This is for employees who would have completed 35 years of service by September 31, 2009. Another list of employees, who would have completed 35 years of service by December 31, 2009 should also be prepared and furnished.

A sample format to issue retirement orders in respect of those affected by the Act will be worked out by the P&AR, and circulated to all departments. Further, all departments have been directed to carry out a special scrutiny of all service records and service books of government employees under them. This should be completed within three months from the date this memo was issued. Those found to have tampered with their age or date of entry into service, should be given the option of going for voluntary retirement, or face disciplinary proceedings and criminal prosecution in a court of law. This will entail forfeiture of all pension benefits, if found guilty.