Nobody wants to go home willingly at opportune time in this country. Look at the politicians. Even after taking leave of their senses and after they have gone gaga they won’t hang up their boots. Only when their number is up and their Maker decides to meet them, do they call goodbye to politics. The same goes for our cricket players. They also don’t resign on their own volition even after losing their utility unless they are booted out by the selection committee. Our bureaucrats too fancy occupying their chair even after reaching their age of superannuation. When their retirement age nears they try to wangle extension in their service by licking the boots of those who move in the corridors of power. If they don’t succeed in their mission they try to get themselves posted as consultant in government departments and if worst comes to worst and Lady luck does not smile on them they join some NGO or open an NGO of their own.
It is in the air that some of the senior bureaucrats are trying to jack up the retirement age of the civil servants up to 62 from 60. Time was when it used to be 55. Fida Hasan, a leading bureaucrat had reached 55 and the then President of the country, whose blue eyed boy he was, didn’t want him to retire so in order to retain him he increased the retirement age to 60. History was to repeat itself after a couple of years when another top ranking civil servant Ghulam Ishaque reached the retirement age of 58 and the president he was serving didn’t want to lose him so the retirement age was upped by another two years and fixed at 60.
The government will be well advised not to take any decision in the matter in poste-haste and if there is any such proposal it should be placed before parliament for a thorough debate on it. The views of general public in the matter should also be obtained through social media before deciding it.
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