Retirement Age Increased: There is good news for lakhs of employees-doctors of the state. In fact, with the increase of 2 years in the retirement age, their service has been extended for 2 years. After getting the approval of the cabinet, a notification has been issued for this.
At the same time, the retirement age of non-teaching cadre officers has been increased from 65 years to 67 years. In fact, a big decision was taken in this matter on July 29. When the government employee doctor was given big relief and his retirement age was increased by 2 years.
After the approval of the cabinet, the retirement age of specialist doctors and non-teaching staff was increased from 65 to 67 years. Issuing the notification in the matter, Chief Health Secretary Arun Kumar Singh said that due to paucity of doctors, the government was facing hurdles in providing proper health services to the people.
Medical officers retire every year but due to lack of appointment in that ratio, there was a huge shortage of staff doctors in the state. The proportion of doctors shortage was increasing at a high rate. After this, the service year of the employees has been increased by 2 years.
It may be noted that earlier the retirement age of medical college teachers was increased from 65 to 67 years by the state government. He said that raising the retirement age of doctors of the existing non-teaching cadre would help in the treatment of patients.
With this, apart from five medical colleges located in the state, 24 District Sadar Hospitals, 12 Divisional Hospitals, 188 Community Health Centers and 385 Primary Health Centers will be run in a better way. Before independence, in 2015, under the leadership of former Chief Minister Raghuvar Das, the government had increased the retirement age of non-teaching doctors to 65 years.
Till 2017, the government had only 2000 employees against its requirement of 5000. In view of this, the exercise of increasing the retirement age of doctors was going on for 3 years.
