Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Approves Forced Retirement 

"zero tolerance" anti-corruption policy, the government has forced the retirement of ten high-ranking telecom department employees

Similar actions were taken in the previous years

resulting in the departure of nearly 400 officers with questionable records from government service.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister of communications and information technology, reportedly gave the green light to the mandatory retirement of ten high-ranking DoT 

This is the first time Section 56(J) of Pension Rule 48 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 has been used to impose mandatory retirement 

Due to their questionable integrity and the government's zero-tolerance anti-corruption policy

the telecom minister has approved the forced retirement of 10 senior DoT officials.