No rule change for govt employees to retire: As most of the Central government employees have been attaining the age of retirement on March 31 (Tuesday), the government clarified that they will retire from the service the same day irrespective of whether they are working from home or office.
The announcement has been made by the Department of Personnel and Training on Tuesday, through an office memorandum.
The reason for the issuance of this order is because most of the government employees have been providing their services to the concerned departments and ministries since March 24 after the nationwide lockdown was clamped to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19.
“In view of the unprecedented situation arising out of countrywide lockdown declared by the government consequent to the outbreak of COVID-19, it is clarified that the central government employees who are attaining the age of superannuation on March 31, 2020, in terms of Fundamental Rule 56 and due to retire, shall retire from Central government service on March 31, 2020, irrespective of whether they are working from home or office,” the order said.
Since the lockdown announcement, almost all the government, as well as private offices, have told their employees to work from home.
However, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India went up by 35 percent over the past two days to 1397, the latest data from the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) published last night shows. This is a faster increase compared to the previous two days when the case count rose 23 percent to 1071.
India’s trajectory is now flatter than that of the US, which is emerging as the new global epicenter of COVID-19. Yet, it continues to be steeper than that of Singapore or Japan, which have managed to flatten their coronavirus curves through a combination of focused surveillance, screening, and the effective use of masks to contain the pandemic.
