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JS body places report on Public Servants Bill '10

Wednesday, 3 February 2010


The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Establishment Ministry Tuesday placed report on the Public Servants (Retirement) (Amendment) Bill 2010, reports BSS.
Committee Chairman Khandakar Asaduzzaman placed the report in the House with the recommendation for passage of the bill in an amended form.
Earlier on January 27, Agriculture Minister Motia Chowdhury, on behalf of LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, who is in charge of Establishment Ministry in the House, had placed the bill proposing amendment for enhancing the retirement age of the public servants who were Freedom Fighters.
According to the bill, a public servant, who is a Freedom Fighter, should retire from the service on completion of 59 years of his age.
While placing the bill, the minister said the bill would give legal status to the Public Servants (Retirement) (Amendment) Ordinance-2009 proclaimed by the government on December 13, 2009.
The bill said a Freedom Fighter public servant, who had already gone on Leave Preparatory to Retirement (LPR) immediately before this law, would be re-employed in the service.