Daily Excelsior reports J and K High Court has dismissed the plea of Cooperative Societies employees who wanted to have their retirement age on par with the Government employees.
The court rejected the plea saying merely on the basis of recommendation of the Committee they cannot seek parity. “Unless the recommendation is accepted by the Government and consequent changes are made in the Rules, the right to seek a direction against the respondents would not mature in favour of the petitioners”, the court said.
The petitioners had challenged the Rule 13 of the Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Societies Service Rules, 1988, issued vide SRO 233 whereby age of superannuation of Cooperative Societies under the state’s Cooperative Societies Act, has been fixed as 58 years.