“A Restraint On Free Speech”: Retired Civil Service Officers Write To PM on the Amendment to Pension Rules
‘Effort to consolidate information in the hands of the state’
In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, retired civil service officers have called the recent amendments to the Central Pension Rules “a restraint on free speech” and have asked the government to take it back.
The recent amendments to the Central Pension Rules mandate that if any retired government service officer, who has worked in the field of intelligence or security-related organization, wants to make any publication after retirement, they have to take prior permission and approval from the head of their respective organization.