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Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) will now retire at the age of 60 years
Union Home Ministry direction for Central Armed Police Forces to adopt uniform retirement age of 60 years
Union Home Ministry has directed all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to adopt uniform retirement age of 60 years.
About:
- All personnel working in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) will now retire at a uniform age of 60 years.
- A Home Ministry order issued yesterday has corrected the anomaly where personnel between the ranks of Constable to Commandant in four forces- CRPF, BSF, ITBP, and SSB superannuated at the age of 57, instead of 60.
- Officers from the rank of Deputy Inspector General up to the top-most rank of Director General in these four forces retired after attaining the age of 60.
- However, in two other forces of the CISF and the Assam Rifles, all personnel retired at the age of 60.
- The latest Home Ministry direction comes in the wake of a January order of the Delhi High Court where it had called the policy of different age of superannuation as discriminatory and unconstitutional and said it created two classes in the uniformed forces.
