Pension laws in India a khichdi: Supreme Court

Source – thehindu.com

The Supreme Court on Thursday called pension laws of the country a “khichdi” of instructions, office memoranda, clarifications, corrigenda and so on and so forth.

A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, in a judgment recommended the Department of Personnel and Training “to try and make life after retirement easier for a government servant by having appropriate legislation enacted by Parliament or applicable pension rules.”

The judgment came in the case of a railway employee who had to wait for 27 years for a decision on his pension. The apex court warned that a somewhat “similar fate seems to await government servants — on getting retired.”