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Voluntary Superannuation

I know of some who have taken voluntary superannuation even at any early stage in their life. The one I know of is my distant brother in law who worked in Railways and took voluntary retirement at the age of 55 years. That must have been late 1990s. He is now more than 65 years; relatively healthy. He told me that he took voluntary retirement as he was not happy with the working environment and was also not that well. Similarly, I have also seen one of my colleagues taking voluntary superannuation in our organization. He is quite healthy. The reasons of retirement are personal. Yet, one hears of allegations of maltreatment meted out to him during service. There are many more cases that I know of. Officially, reasons of voluntary retirement are often personal; not well healthwise; unofficially, these are the products of work environment which affected their health. Some of these people are quite sensitive. One of them mentioned harassment from seniors, and most likely from the report