Doctors with the health department of Maharashtra Government have urged the state government to keep their retirement age at 60 permanently.
 

A memorandum to this effect was submitted on April 10 to Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde by the Arogya Seva Doctors Adhikari Kruti Samiti listing their demands. The co-ordinator of the state committee of the Samiti Dr Avinash Bhagwat told mediapersons said that the state government had vide its decision raised the retirement age of doctors from 58 to 60 from September 03,2015. However, the government has proposed the rollback of the same and wants to bring down the retirement age once again to 58, from 60, and it will be effective from May 2018.

In the memorandum, he has pointed out that only a limited doctors in the service of the health department and that too for a limited period of three years were benefited due to this decision and this is nothing but an injustice for the others. Hence the government should have a permanent and uniform retirement age for the doctors in service he urged. He also pointed out that the central government had fixed the retirement age of doctors in health services as 65 and the retirement age of those in the health department of the state government has also been fixed at 64.

It is absolutely justified and essential that the retirement age of doctors in the services of health department of the state government be fixed at 60, without changing it he has urged. He also pointed out that the doctors have been doing their bit by their services in the rural and urban regions and all the state and national programmes successfully.