{"id":264632,"date":"2023-10-16T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264632"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:16:20","slug":"centre-likely-to-raise-age-of-retirement-of-scientists-to-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-likely-to-raise-age-of-retirement-of-scientists-to-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre likely to raise age of retirement of scientists to 65"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>Centre likely to raise age of retirement of scientists to 65\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 16th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Science and Technology is considering a plan to increase the retirement age of scientists from 60 to 65.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the current retirement age of scientists?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Scientists in most wings of the government retire at 60.But those working at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) retire at 62.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why is the government planning to increase the retirement age of scientists?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government is planning to increase the retirement age of scientists to prevent experienced scientists from leaving for universities and institutes where the retirement age is already 65.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Was this proposal on increasing the retirement age of scientists considered earlier?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015, the Government was planning to increase the retirement age of scientists but it was not implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o far, the government has been giving scientists who are near retirement, \u2018extensions\u2019 that may increase their tenure by two or up to five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government has also opted for short-term contracts to retain valuable senior employees.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre likely to raise age of retirement of scientists to 65\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 16th October 2023 What is the News? The Ministry of Science and Technology is considering a plan to increase the retirement age of scientists from 60 to 65.\u00a0 What is the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-likely-to-raise-age-of-retirement-of-scientists-to-65\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre likely to raise age of retirement of scientists to 65<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,1738,9],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-264632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":340,"cached_at":1698383263,"cached_date":1698659973},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}