Gujarat’s 70% Government Staff will retire in Next 8 Years

Gandhinagar, Gujarat

70 percent of Gujarat government’s 4.77 lakh workforce is set to retire in the next eight years. Gujarat government has no-recruitment policy implemented for last 15 years. Therefore there are no replacements for all the experienced officials in the state machinery who have already started retiring.

Between 2005 and 2007, the state government did recruit 47,000 employees, but almost all of them were hired for teaching purposes and in the police department.

During the last financial year(2007-08) 11,112 government employees retired and in 2008-09, another 13,014 will call it a day. The government has 239,818 people on its rolls and almost the same number-237,452- are in the employ of the panchayats. Of these total 4.77 lakh employees nearly 70 percent will retire over the next seven years.

Gujarat inherited its employees when the state was carved out of the then Mumbai state in 1960. About 300000 were hired in the next four or five years. They are all nearing the age of retirement.