Hyderabad, January 03: The state government is contemplating raising the retirement age of university employees from 60 to 62 years and of the teaching faculty of aided colleges from 58 to 60 years, minister for higher and technical education C Damodar Rajanarasimha has said. Releasing a diary brought out by the Affiliated College Teachers’ Association of Andhra Pradesh (ACTA-AP) at the Indian Institute of Management and Commerce (IIMC) here today, Rajanarasimha said “The state government received a report that discussed all the pros and cons of the proposal, including the cascading effect on government employment and the huge savings at least for two years on account of retirement benefit pay-outs.” Declaring the government’s intention to initiate recruitment of lecturers to fill up decade-old vacancies in aided colleges, he assured that the government would endeavour to release the salaries of aided colleges by the first of every month. Paturi Sudhakar Reddy, MLC, demanded that the government expedite recruitment of faculty members for aided colleges in view of a large number of senior faculty staff retiring in the current year. ACTA-AP chairman S Rajeswar Rao and secretary G Mallikarjun Rao, and S M Maheshwari were also present.
–Agencies