Kathmandu, Sept. 2 -- The Legislation Management Committee of the National Assembly unanimously passed the Federal Civil Service Bill on Tuesday.

The committee's meeting at Singha Durbar endorsed the bill with full consensus after an agreement was reached on the retirement age of civil servants.

The bill, already passed by the House of Representatives, provides that the retirement age will remain 58 in the first year after the Civil Service Act comes into effect, 59 in the second year, and 60 from the third year onwards.

Following agreement on all issues, Committee chair Tulasa Kumari Dahal announced that the bill had been unanimously passed.

With this, the government has backed down from the proposal to raise the retirement age of ci...