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Bangladesh takes move to enhance retirement age limit for public servants
22/12/2008 16:18

The Bangladesh government has taken a move to enhance retirement age limit for the country's public servants by two to three years, leading Bengali Daily Ittefaq reported today.
The country's Ministry of Establishment has sent a proposal to the chief adviser of the Bangladesh caretaker government for increasing retirement age of public servants to 59 from existing 57,the newspaper said.
The ministry also proposed the government to increase retirement age limit for freedom fighters -- those public servants who took part in the country's war of independence in 1971 -- to 60.
Establishment ministry officials were quoted as saying that the Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has already in principle approved the proposal and sent it to a government committee for further review.
The newspaper said the proposal will soon be produced before the advisory council of the caretaker administration for its nod.
The government move came as a large number of the country's freedom fighters have long been demanding to increase their retirement age limit from existing 57.


Xinhua