POST RETIREMENT SINCECURES IN INDIA

Post retirement sinecures.

It is with a great sadness,impotent rage and frustration that I am urging a strong protest against the present practice of sinecures and post retirement perks for retired senior officials.

Given the present state of umemployment in the country ,with vast majority ekeing out a living, these post retirement sincecures which cost the exchequer not less than Rs 10000/ per re-employed babu at the least are a drain and a slap in the face of the vast majority of the unemployed masses especially the youth.

Senior officials are usually given assignments under clever subterfuges in state funded organizations in a brazen manner, and at the lowest rung this assumes the atrocious identities as consultants.to supplement thier pensions. This is a new method employed the organizations like the CGA to reemploy their retired senior officials at a fixed salary. This is nothing but open loot by the senior establishment, and technically it has no DOPT sanction. DOPT and the Ministry of finance owe the people an explanation for the scam which has assumed gargantuan propotions, after what began as a sinecure for retired judges appointed to various commissions.

ALSO the move to raise the retirement age to 62 is uncalled for as it is more prudent to give a chance to young blood given the present unemployment in the country than to hold on to cosily ensconsced older babus.

This can also be filed as a public interest litigation in the Supreme
Court..where ,a favourable consideration can be expected notwithstanding the fact that a few senior judges are themsleves beneficiaries of post retirement
sinecures.

An UNBIASED JUDGEMENT IS CALLED FOR.