Protest against higher retirement age Updated: Updated: Stir on the lines of the one for statehood planned, says JAC Share Article Stir on the lines of the one for statehood planned, says JAC The Telangana Unemployed Joint Action Committee has demanded that the State government drop its plans to increase the retirement age of its staff from the existing 58 years to 61 years stating that such a step would force the unemployed youth into frustration further. A protest was held at Indira Park here on Thursday decrying the recent announcement by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao that the government would increase the retirement age of the employees soon, as promised before the last Assembly elections. Several backward classes associations and Communist Party of India (CPI) expressed solidarity with the protest.