Bhubaneswar: Taking a cue from Modi government’s premature retirement scheme, the state government has decided to show the doors to inefficient and corrupt officials.
General Administration secretary Sanjeev Chopra has issued a circular to all secretaries in this regard Tuesday.
The new rule of review will be applicable to government employees who have put in 30 years of service or have attained the age of 50 (whichever is earlier) and also those who have attained the age of 55.
However, employees who are expected to retire within a year are not to be considered under the new rule.
The government has set up five committees to review the performance and service record of state government employees under Group A, B, C and D category every three months.
As per the recommendations of the panels, the government will take action for premature retirement of some officials.
“Premature retirement of officials will be considered only when it is required in public interest. Retaining an employee in service will depend if he/she is clearly lacking in integrity or although his/her integrity is not in doubt, his/her physical or mental condition is such as to make him/her inefficient for further service or even though his/her work in a lower grade was satisfactory, he clearly lacks standard or efficiency required to discharge the duties of the post he presently holds. The basic consideration in identifying such employees should be the fitness and competence of the employees to continue in the post which he/she is holding,” the circular said.
If an employee’s performance was reviewed and his/her service found satisfactory, then the employee’s case will not be reviewed for the next five years.
The government circular, however, made it clear that premature retirement was no penalty and no stigma be attached to an employee retired prematurely. The service period of all such employees who are being prematurely retired should be certified as satisfactory for purposes of pension.
Though the provision of premature retirement existed since November 1987, no major steps have been taken by the government in this regard so far.
In June this year, the Union government had retired 27 senior officers from Indian Revenue Service over lack of efficiency and integrity.