PANJIM: The State government has constituted the ‘Review and Representation Committee’ to review the performance of employees who attain the age of 50-55 years, or who complete 30 years of service qualifying pension.
The Office Memorandum issued by Personnel Department will be made applicable to all those government servants with doubtful integrity and those not fit or ineffective for their current designation.
While stating that the basic consideration in identifying such government servants should be their fitness/competence to continue in the post held, the department has clarified that the government has the absolute right to retire any Government servant by giving them notice of three months in writing. The premature retirement is “not a penalty” as per the memorandum.
“Government has issued various instructions for undertaking periodic review of the performance of government servants with a view to ascertain whether the government servant should be retained in service or retired from service prematurely, in the public interest. In order to bring in better clarity to the existing instructions and enable uniform implementation, an effort has been made to review, consolidate and reiterate the guidelines so far issued on the subject at one place,” states the OM.
The Heads of the department are directed to maintain the register of employees who are due to attain the age of 50/55 years or to complete 30 years of service.
“Government may, at any time after a government servant has attained the age of 50/55 years or completed 30 years of service, as the case may be, retire him pre-maturely in public interest,” OM states.
