The latest order by the Department of Higher Education permitting re-employment of Joint Director, Regional Joint Director, Principals in Grade I and II, College Librarians, and Directors of Physical Education who are engaged in administrative nature of job, after attainment of superannuation, has been questioned by an RTI activist in Coimbatore.
In the Government Order 192 dated November 12, 2024, the re-employment for these posts were dispensed with, on the last day of the month of attaining the age of superannuation.
The latest order issued on July 31 was based on the request of the Commissioner of Collegiate Education for permitting their re-employment.
In a petition submitted to the Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education, RTI activist and former Associate Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, CBM College, Coimbatore, N.R. Ravisankar, said the re-employment order of the Higher Education Department ran counter to the amendment made to the Government Order 92.
It states that every government servant in the superior as well as basic service shall retire from service on the afternoon of the last day of the month of attainment of 60 years. They shall not be retained in service after that age.
“The Amendment is clear that those attaining the age of 60 years on superannuation cannot continue further. How then is it possible for the Higher Education Department to issue the G.O. on reemployment which is applicable to the posts in the government-aided colleges as well.
Citing an instance of the directive given to a government-aided college in Coimbatore to appoint a new Principal by cancelling the re-employment of the existing principal based on the retirement age of 60 years, Prof. Ravichandran said the latest G.O. of the Higher Education Department on re-employment has to be withdrawn.
Published – August 03, 2025 09:06 pm IST
