Retirement age of Telangana’s Singareni Colleries employees hiked to 61

KHAMMAM: As per the instructions of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) management has approved the decision to increase the retirement age of its employees from the existing 60 years to 61 years. The approval was accorded during the 557th board of directors meeting held at the Singareni Bhavan on Monday.

The same was announced by SCCL Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) N Sridhar. Representatives of the board from both the Central and State governments were also present during the meeting. It may be recalled that in March 2021, the Chief Minister had issued orders raising the retirement age of all State government employees from 58 to 61 years. In the meantime, KCR had also advised the SCCL management to implement the same in their company as well.