Dimapur, August 26 (MExN): The Guhati High Court is expected to schedule a hearing soon on the Nagaland Retirement from Public Employment (2nd amendment) Act, 2009. The Nagaland Senior Government Employees’ Welfare Association took the bill to the high court, which admitted the organization’s petition on July 27.
The employees’ petition was not admitted earlier as the bill had not been published as an Act in the Nagaland Gazettee. Now that it has been published as an Act, the Guhati High Court has admitted the association’s petition. The association today informed in a note that on the bill’s publication as an Act, it has filed an additional affidavit in the Guhati High Court on August 19. The high court is expected to schedule a hearing on the case soon.
Making these clarifications, the association said the retirement Act of the Nagaland government will affect not only “a few” senior government employees by many of them and including both gazetted and non-gazetted employees. The affected would also affect primary teachers, grade-IV employees and police constables who entered into government service at the ages 18 to 22 years. They will be forced to retire before reaching the superannuation age.
