Retirement age will not be reduced - Hon'ble Ministers inform Parliament - all the employees who opted for VRS due to this fear, can now withdraw their option.

Reduction of the retirement age from 60 to 58 years, is one of the threatenings that has made a large number of BSNL employees to opt for VRS. Rumour mongers did over time to spread this mischievous rumour, to force a large number of employees to opt for VRS.

But, now the State Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Dr. Jitendra Singh, has declared in the Parliament on 27-11-2019, that the Government has no proposal to reduce the retirement age of it’s employees, from 60 to 58 years. This reply of the Minister, given in the Parliament, has nailed down a very big lie, spread by mischievous elements.

BSNLEU has already made it known that the BSNL Management, vide it's letter no. BSNL /4/SR/2000 dated 2nd January, 2001 has given the assurance that, "Age of superannuation for all the Non-Board level employees in BSNL will be regulated in accordance with Government rules."

Already, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance has informed the Parliament on 25-11-2019 that, the government has no proposal to fix the retirement age of government employees as 60 year or 33 years of service, whichever is earlier.

Hence, all the employees who have opted for VRS, due to the fear, that retirement age will be reduced, can now withdraw their option.