Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on May 31st Tuesday gave an approval for the doctors retirement age as 65 years of central services to strengthen the healthcare sector in the country.

“Prime Minister today (on Tuesday) approved the proposal of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for enhancing the age of superannuation of all doctors of the Central Health Service to 65 years with effect from May 31, 2016,” said the statement.

This step is expected to bring some changes in medical field and to enable the government doctors to retain for a long period and provide their services to the poor who is dependent on public facilities completely.

Health Minister J.P Nadda said:”This step will empower the government to strengthen the healthcare sector in the country. It will help in providing additional doctors in the health pool of the country.

“This will strengthen the efforts of the Ministry in conceptualising and rolling out various people-oriented schemes which will need the services of doctors in implementing them.”

State Health Minister Anil Vij said :”The decision would benefit 312 doctors, including 57 medical officials, 159 senior medical officials and other senior health officials such as health department directors and Director General Health Services.”

This decision is taken after the Prime Minister Modi`s announcement at Saharanpur rally saying that the government is going to raise the retirement of government doctors to 65 years. Inspite of this Haryana government is planning to raise the age of retirement to 65 years which is on to implementation.