The civic body recently approved a temporary increase in the age of retirement from 62 years to 63 years to prevent a reduced workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, very few turn up for stir at Azad Maidan
A health worker conducts COVID tests at Dadar railway station on January 25. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
A protest called by civic doctors to oppose the increased aged limit of retirement from 62 years to 63 years fizzled out as hardly any doctors turned up for the protest on Wednesday. The BMC has approved a proposal in its Standing Committee meeting to increase the age limit. However, authorities mentioned that it is just a temporary arrangement.
The proposal and its approval did not go well with a few and a protest was organised at Azad Maidan on Wednesday. Very few people turned up for the protest. A doctor not willing to be named said, “The BMC always starts with such things as temporary and then swiftly makes it a permanent thing. If this continues, many who deserve promotions will have to suffer.”
BMC officials had explained to the Standing Committee earlier that this was a temporary arrangement as they did not want a vacuum in the system during the ongoing pandemic.
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