CHANGING ROLE AND STATUS IN RETIRED GOVERNEMNT EMPLOYEES

Abstract

This paper examines the changing role and status as a result of retirement among government employees. This study attempts to investigate “Changing roles of the retired government employees in relation to their participation in socio-economic and cultural life and there after effect on their post retirement life and evaluating participation level as well as their decision making privileges in various related domain of life like inter and intra-generational relationship and social-economic periphery.” The study also emphasizes identification of their problem and area of problems with assessing the changes of status in their pre and post retirement life through evaluating roles allocated and enacted by them.  The study also noted that the post retirement life of the aged people have been influenced by the support they get from social networks. Through access to cash and non cash remittances either from their family or by government in the form of pension, the elderly have been able to add to their own efforts and therefore ensuring a better living. It is known that in India the family plays a central role in the well being of aged people, though impact of modernization has comparatively lessen the importance of the family in India. Support services have also been advanced by organizations such as non-governmental organizations and political parties. The study adopted the sustainable retirement approach (SRA) as the theoretical framework that has been used to analyze the activities of the retired people and after effects of those activities.