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VRS for central govt staff soon, says Shourie

The government will soon come out with a voluntary retirement scheme for central government employees to reduce the existing staff strength as recommended by the Fifth Pay Commission, Minister of State for Personnel Arun Shourie informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Responding to supplementaries during question hour, Shourie said 10 per cent of the total staff in the central government would be reduced by 2005.

He said action had been initiated by the government to evolve a revised VRS for the surplus personnel keeping in view the recommendations of the Expenditure Reforms Commission as it was felt the size of bureaucracy had overgrown over a period of time and was having an adverse impact on its efficacy.

Shourie said the new scheme would take care of the number of years completed and the number of years left in the service of government employees.

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