ISLAMABAD: Over the issue of *Enhancement of retirement age, the CivilServices Reforms committee take impotent decision.*
Dr Ishrat Husain-led Task Force on Civil Service Reforms has deferred theproposal for enhancing the retirement age of government servants from 60 to63.
Informed sources said that the Task Force considered the proposal butdecided to defer it till the finalization of some basic civil servicereforms, including the overhauling of the present performance managementsystem.
When approached, Dr Ishrat Husain confirmed that the proposal to enhancethe retirement age was considered by the task force and deferred till theintroduction of some fundamental civil service reforms.
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The task force, according to sources, observed that only following theoverhauling of the present performance management system, the proposal forenhancement of retirement age could be revisited in order to set guidelinesfor those government servants whose retirement age could be extended on thebasis of merit, efficiency and performance.