Retirement age 58 to 60 – Bihar decides to increase retirement age of Home Guards
The State Government of Bihar decided to increase the retirement age of Home Guards from 58 to 60. According to the press report, the major decision is effective from 1st December 2014. Nearly 53,000 Home Guards will get the benefit of two more years of service.
Home Gurads are support force to the regular police of Bihar. And also decided that those Home Guards who have completed twenty years of service, including ten years of working days, will be given a one time grant of Rs.1,50,000 when they attain the age of sixty.