Talking to reporters, senior Nagaland Government Employees Welfare Association Secretary Medoselhou explained that the Nagalnd government had recently adopted the new retirement system under which any employee who completes a maximum service 35 years is due to retire on superannuation. ''As many as 3,500 government servants retired in a single day as a result of the new rule,'' he claimed.
''If a person joins government service at an age of 18-years, he is due to retire when he attains 53-years. It will help in generating middle age unemployment,'' he deplored.
He said, ''It is very difficult for a person to get rid of all family responsibilities at the age of 53 or 55 and the new retirement system is absolutely unjustified and illegitimate.'' Northeast State Government Employees and Teachers United Forum (NSGETUF) Secretary Asish Debaray explained that the Nagaland government had enhanced the retirement age from 57 to 60 years. But later, the maximum service had been set as 35 years.
''We strongly demand to remove the 35 years service limit and set 60 years as retirement age without service limit. We will agitated until the 35 years service limit is done away,'' the union leader said.