The government has prepared a plan to lay off one lakh government employees.

Lahore (Liaqat Kharal): Early retirement policy has been launched for all government employees. It has been decided in principle to implement the Civil Service (Mandatory Retirement Service) Rule 2020, under which it has been decided to dismiss employees of government agencies from three categories of premature retirement.

Sources said that a plan has been drawn up in the first phase to forcibly retire employees and officers who have not performed well in government institutions, including additional, unnecessary, alleged corruption and abuse of power. Govt finalized the plan and ordered regular implementation from this year.

Sources said that under the Federal Government's Public Service Rules 2020, it has been decided to force a large number of employees and officers in government agencies to retire and send them home. Two separate committees have been formed for up to 19 employees and officers. The plan is to lay off employees from Grade 1 to Grade 17, Grade 17 to Grade 20 and then from Grade 20 to Grade 22 at the age of 58.

Sources said that the committee has been given a target of two months to prepare a list of various departments including Railways, Sui Gas, WAPDA and PIA. In which poor performance of employees and officers. It has been decided to file charges of incompetence including alleged corruption and abuse of power and thus a large number of employees are being laid off.

Sources said that it has been decided to implement such a plan on the agenda of the IMF and it will be shown that this plan of the government will improve the performance of the institutions and also the performance of the employees and officers there. The monitoring system will be simplified and complaints of incompetence, including alleged abuse of power, will be eliminated.

Sources said that in the first phase of the government's plan, it has been decided to dismiss one lakh employees and officers from federal agencies. In the first phase, 58-year-old employees and officers, while in the second phase, contract and daily wage employees have been laid off.

On the other hand, this plan of the government has caused a wave of widespread concern among the employees and officers of government agencies. Has made a plan to call.