SCB employees for raising retirement age to 59 years

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FE Report
More 500 employees of state-controlled banks (SCBs) and financial institutions claiming themselves to be freedom fighters have applied for raising their retirement age from 57 to 59 years, sources in the Ministry of Finance (MoF) said.
They have applied to the MoF as the government recently decided to raise the retirement age of employees of both government and semi-government offices by two years only for freedom fighters.
The MoF forwarded the applications along with supporting papers to the Ministry of liberation War to verify the authenticity of their claim, the sources said.
Meanwhile, the liberation war ministry has finalised a form to be filled up by FFs seeking extension of their retirement age.
According to the prescribed form, employees of government and semi-government offices, who were FFs, have to submit their original copy of SSC certificates and they have to declare whether they were appointed in jobs under the quota of FF or not.
Officials in the liberation war ministry said they would verify all relevant certificates of FFs before giving green signal to the MoF.
They said a uniform system will be followed for all to avert any controversy amid the rush of applications from FFs from government and semi-government offices to get the benefit.