The movement has started to reverse the unanimous decision of the Legislative Management Committee under the National Assembly on the implementation method of mandatory retirement age of employees.

Under the pressure of the staff leadership who want to extend the tenure, the ruling Congress and UML have started trying to reverse the decision.

The House of Representatives made provision in the bill that the retirement age would be maintained at 58 years in the first year of the Federal Civil Service Act, 59 years in the second year, and 60 years in the third year. It was unanimously accepted by the Legislation Management Committee of the National Assembly on Friday. But in Sunday's meeting, General Administration Minister Bhagwati Neupane, along with secretary Ravilal Panth, Congress and UML MPs in the committee insisted that the decision should be revised.  In the

meeting, Congress's Anand Prasad Dhungana, Krishna Bahadur Rokay, UML's Gopal Bhattarai and President-nominated MP Anjan Shakya expressed the need to revise the implementation method regarding the retirement age. Gangakumari Belvase, Radheshyam Paswan, Taraman Swar, Suresh Alemgar and Jhakku Subedi of the opposition party Maoist, Beduram Bhusal and Jayantidevi Rai of the United Socialist Party and Mrigendra Kumar Singh of JSP Nepal maintained that the unanimous decision should not be reversed.

In section 58 of the bill, the House of Representatives has provided that "civil servants who reach the age of 58 years in the financial year in which the Act comes into force shall retire after reaching the age of 58 years" and "employees in the second financial year after reaching the age of 59 years". According to this, the legal system of age limit of 60 years will be implemented from the third financial year. While this arrangement has been accepted by the Legislative Management Committee, there has been pressure to keep the provision of retirement in 59 years since the commencement of the Act. When the age limit of 59 years is implemented in the same year as the

act, the term of office of employees who are going to retire due to the age limit of 58 years according to the previous act will be extended by one year. On the other hand, if the Public Service Commission does not open new advertisement for filling up the posts, more than four and a half lakh students preparing for the civil service entrance exam will be affected.

Joint Secretary Meera Acharya argued that since she is in the first stage of filling up posts in the government service, if the retirement age is made 59 years from the current financial year, there will be no problem in filling up new posts. Stating that the organization and management (O&M) survey has been laid down in the Civil Bill, she said that the process will be completed by next November. "If the retirement age is 58 years in the current financial year, there will be a problem in filling the posts," she said. Secretary Panth also repeated the words of Joint Secretary Acharya. But Tulsa Dahal, the chairperson of the committee, said that the statement she mentioned while passing the clause and the argument that the decision should be reversed did not match.

Minister Neupane maintained that since she was absent on the day of the age limit implementation, it must be changed. Accept the special situation. I humbly say, I request you to accept what the ministry has put," she said. The minister said that the decision made earlier can be reversed as the report is yet to be written by the committee.

UML chief whip Gopal Bhattarai said that according to the government (minister), the retirement age should be increased to 59 years instead of 58 this year. Congress MP Anand Prasad Dhungana also agreed to reverse his own decision two days ago saying 'Let's correct it as requested by the minister'.

Congress' Krishna Bahadur Rokaye commented that the problem arose when the minister and secretary tried to mislead the committee. He said that because the secretary did not give a clear reason, there was pressure to go back from the decision that had already been made. He also asked the other MPs to reconsider the unanimous decision of the committee. United Samajwadi MP Beduram Bhusal, as the unanimous decision has been made public  It will be difficult to reverse the

. "We should not go back the other way on a matter that we have already decided. We should proceed with the decision that has already been made," he said.

Maoist MP Radheshyam Paswan questioned under the pressure of which person the unanimous decision was tried to be overturned. The secretary and joint secretary of the ministry were suspected. There is no satisfactory answer as to why a unanimous decision should be overturned. It should be followed according to the agreement. Who is this offer for? It should be said," he said. Jaspa Nepal MP Singh had taken a unanimous stand to reverse the unanimous decision. Rai, a member of the United Samajwadi Party, said that if they continue to make unanimous decisions and reverse them under pressure, the established norms of Parliament will be destroyed.

Maoist MP Swar said, "If you keep the vacation age at 58 this year, you will have technical problems, if you keep it at 59, we will have legislative problems." The unanimous decision has gone out.'' I was killed. That the committee members had to accept, that the government had to accept. Someone has to step back from it," she said. The committee has not reached a decision on whether to amend the retirement age implementation method or not. 

According to a Congress MP, it is being tried to bargain with the provision of 'cooling off period' for the implementation of the age limit. UML was not in favor of cooling off period but UML was ready to go for it. A proposal has come through the Minister of General Administration that the age limit provision should be implemented as soon as the law is approved. Congress has been told that it should be considered,'' said the MP, 'we are still studying what the impact of immediate implementation may be.'

Chief Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal and other secretaries who are about to retire, MPs suspect that they are trying to amend the implementation method of the age limit. Aryal had publicly pressured the parliament and political leadership to remove the 'cooling of period' provision of the bill that prevents him from getting constitutional, diplomatic and government appointments for 2 years after retirement. He had put pressure on the executive, legislature and political party leaders by tying up the secretaries. General Secretary of Parliament Padma Prasad Pandey was also involved in this work.

According to the data of National Library, 2 thousand 211 employees including Chief Secretary Aryal, 21 Secretaries and 78 Joint Secretaries are going on compulsory retirement in the current financial year. Among them, 360 employees have retired by August 16. 

Chief Secretary Aryal is going on compulsory retirement on December 10 due to the age limit of 58 years. Phaninder Gautam, Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Gokarnamani Duwadi, on November 10, Keshav Kumar Sharma, Secretary of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Keshav Kumar Sharma, Secretary of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, and Krishnahari Puskar, Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, are retiring on June 24, 2083. 

Secretaries in powerful and economically influential ministries such as physical infrastructure and transport, water supply, labor, employment and social security, home, etc. are trying to increase their tenure, said a joint secretary of civil service. "Some secretaries have an interest in mobilizing a budget of one and a half billion, while others want to increase their tenure as they cannot be appointed after retirement," he said. "This year, if 2,200 posts are vacant, the commission will not be able to advertise except for the seats that have been retired due to other reasons," he says.

According to Regmi, the chairman of the commission, the phased implementation of the retirement age will not affect the commission's post-filling process at once. According to him, four and a half lakh competitors participate every year for civil service entrance. The Public Service Commission of the House of Representatives recommended the implementation method of the 60-year age limit to be implemented in phases within three years, not at once, but with a schedule of time limits.

From 1 July 2082 to 30 January 2082, 58 years and 6 months will be maintained by adding 6 months, from 1 January 2082 to 20 December 2083, 1 year i.e. 59 years and from 1 January 2083, the age limit of all employees will be maintained at 60 years. But due to the pressure of the employees, the state system committee unanimously passed the provision to maintain the retirement age at 58 years in the last financial year, 59 years in the second year and 60 years in the third year.