As the world comes together to fight the pandemic, economies across the globe have taken a huge hit.
Amidst all this, an article by an online portal is making the rounds with a claim that the ‘Centre is likely to reduce retirement age to 50 in Coronavirus crisis’.
The story was shared extensively on social media.
Had Modi cared not to Host Namaste trump and impose a Ban on International travel in January itself we would be saved of disaster https://t.co/4w7voR31uk
— Idazaa (@Idazaa2) April 26, 2020
Regular Retirement Age for Central Govt. Employees to be 50 yrs? Good Move! You can give the youth a chance at employment & get rid of slow, lazy… hanging on to the job, employees! But, Voluntary Retirement age also should be brought down to 15yrs! #narendramodi #jitendrasingh
— LuckyK (@KcluckyK) April 27, 2020
Centre planning to reduce retirement age 50 years .towards to newly recruite their agenda in employment. beware sc ,bc and minorities against the implementation.
— Hussain Miyan (@HussainMiyan5) April 27, 2020
Rajya Sabha MP, Subramanian Swamy, also mentioned this in his tweet dated April 26.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be false.
The Press Information Bureau in a post clarified that the government has made no such move. “The claim made within the report is false. Centre is neither planning nor discussing any such move, ” the post read.
Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh also rubbished the claim saying, “there is no such move to reduce retirement age nor has such a proposal been discussed or contemplated. While the entire world is praising PM Sh Narendra Modi for his proactive handling of #COVID pandemic, certain vested elements trying to underplay the good work done by Govt”.
“There is no such move to reduce retirement age nor has such a proposal been discussed or contemplated. While the entire world is praising PM Sh Narendra Modi for his proactive handling of #COVID pandemic, certain vested elements trying to underplay the good work done by Govt”. pic.twitter.com/RAYp6j7qJD
— Dr Jitendra Singh (@DrJitendraSingh) April 26, 2020
The above information proves that the viral news is false.
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