The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has increased the retirement age health officers -- doctors and deans -- working in all the civic-run hospitals by one year as a temporary measure in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
Their retirement age will now be 59 instead of 58, it said. It also increased by one year the retirement age of professors in the BMC-run medical colleges temporarily.
However, the decision of continuing in service is voluntary, said officials. It said the decision is not applicable for those health officers, who are set to retire in the next three months.
This decision has come as a great relief to the doctors and professors who are on the verge of retirement. On the other hand, resentment is likely to be expressed among candidates who are on the verge of becoming deans, senior doctors and assistant professors, associate professors.
The proposal was put on hold without approval at the January 8 meeting of the Standing Committee. At that time, this proposal was vehemently opposed by all-party group leaders and corporators. However, the proposal was approved unopposed today, on January 21.
Besides, the BMC said that since a large number of posts of professors in civic medical colleges are lying vacant, it has decided to increase the retirement age of professors there temporarily by one year to 64 years, from the existing retirement age of 63 years.
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