NEW DELHI: The retirement age of CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB personnel is all set to be raised to 60 years, from the present 57, with the Home Ministry calling a meeting of all CAPF chiefs next week to resolve an existing anomaly regarding their superannuation, officials said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sent a directive in this context to the Directors General (DsG) of these forces in the wake of a Delhi High Court order that called the current policy “discriminatory and unconstitutional” which created two classes in these uniformed forces.
These CAPFs are deployed to undertake a variety of security roles in the country, ranging from guarding borders to conducting anti-Naxal operations and combating terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
The meeting has been convened for February 27 and it will be chaired by an additional secretary of the ministry, they said.
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