NEW DELHI: Minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh on Sunday refuted reports in a section of the media that the Centre was considering reducing the age of retirement of government employees to 50 years, saying that neither was there such a move nor had any discussion been undertaken at any level in the government on the issue.Singh sought to blame “certain motivated elements“ for planting such disinformation in a section of the media over the past few days and wrongly attributing it to government sources or department of personnel and training (DoPT). He said each time, a prompt rebuttal was made to clear the confusion in the minds of stakeholders. He said it was unfortunate that at a time when the country was going through a crisis on account of Covid-19, certain elements and vested interests were seeking to underplay all the good work done by the government by planting false stories.Last week, Singh pointed out, a fake news started doing the rounds that the government had decided to impose a 30% cut in pension and discontinue pension for those above the age of 80 years. However, on the contrary, he said the truth was that on March 31, there was not a single pensioner whose pension did not get deposited in his/her account. Not only this, services of the postal department were sought to deliver the pension amount at the residence of pensioners, whenever required, he added.