The Central government has cleared the doubt about the reduction of retirement age of the central government employees, which is being rumored for the last few days.

The Minister of state for Personnel, Public Grievances and  Pension Shri Jitendra Singh stated in the Parliament yesterday, 18th December 2014, that there is no proposal to reduce the retirement age of central government employees from the present 60 to 58. He also stated that the retirement age was increased from 58 to 60 in 1997 as per the recommendations of the V Central Pay Commission.