Raising the Retirement age of Soldiers below the rank of officers in Defence Forces

Raising the Retirement age of Soldiers below the rank of officers in Defence Forces

Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley submitted a report to a question in Lok Sabha on 18th July 2014 about the retirement age of soldiers below the rank of officers in Defence Forces. He said, there is presently no such proposal to increase the retirement age of soldiers below the rank of officers in the defence forces. And the details of the retirement age of various category of officers and soldiers in the defence forces (excluding
Armed Forces Medical Services) at present, are as under:

 ARMY :
Officers Other Ranks
General 62 years or3 years of tenure whichever is earlier Sub Major 54 years or 34 years* of service or4 years of tenure whichever is earlier
Lt. Gen 60 years Subedar 52 years or 30 years*of service
Maj. Gen 58 years Naib Subedar 52 years or 28 years*of service
Brigadier 56 years Havildar 49 years or 26 years*of service
Colonel 54 years Naik 49 years or 24 years*of service
- - Sepoy Gp (X) 42 years or 19 years*of service
- - Sepoy Gp (Y) 48 years or 22 years*of service
* Service limit includes extension of 2 years by screening.

 Note 1: In all categories below officer ranks, age limit or service limit whichever occurs earlier is applicable for retirement. Note 2: Above information does not cover officers of certain specialised branches.
Navy:
Officers Sailors
Admiral 62 years or3 years of tenure whichever is earlier Master Chief Petty Officer (MCPO) I and II 57 years
Vice Admiral 60 years Chief Petty Officer (CPO) and below 52 years
Rear Admiral 58 years - -
Commodore/ Captain (Education) 57 years - -
Commodore/ Captain 56 years - -
Commander 54 years - -
Lt. Commander and below 52 years - -

Air Force: 
Retirement age of Airmen is 57 years. Retirement age for officers is as given below:

(i) Permanent Commissioned Officers:
Air Chief Marshal 62 years or 3 years of tenure whichever is earlier
Air Marshal 60 years
Air Vice Marshal 58 years
Air Commodore (i)   56 years for Flying Branch
(ii)  57 years for other branches
Group Captain (Select) (i)   54 years for Flying Branch
(ii)  57 years for other branches
Wing Commander and Group Captain (Time Scale) (i)   52 years for Flying Branch.
(ii) 54 years for Ground Duty Branches other than education and meteorological branches.

(iii) 57 years for Education and Meteoro-logical branches.

(ii) Branch Commissioned Officers: 57 years.
Various measures taken by the Government for the welfare of soldiers and officers include improvement in living and working conditions through provision of better infrastructure and facilities, additional family accommodation, facilities for movement of troops from border areas and liberalised leave policy, deployment of psychological counsellors for psychological counselling, provisions for medical and health care as per extant rules, provisions to address the educational needs of service personnel and their wards, Group Insurance Scheme, Canteen Stores Department (CSD) facilities, establishing a grievance redressal mechanism and Schemes / Programmes for pre and post retirement training, re-employment and self-employment of ex-servicemen etc.

Source: CGEN.in

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