In a significant administrative reshuffle, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday (05.05.2025) ordered the transfer and posting of 11 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers belonging to the AGMUT cadre. Notably, the reshuffle includes the transfer of four officers from Puducherry to other locations.
The names of the officers are;
Gurpal Singh (IAS:2014:AGMUT) has been transferred from Delhi to Jammu & Kashmir.
Mohammed Ahsan Abid (IAS:2014:AGMUT) has been transferred from Delhi to Puducherry.
Priytarshny P (IAS:2014:AGMUT) has been transferred from Puducherry to Arunachal Pradesh.
Rajesh Kumar (IAS:2014:AGMUT) has been transferred from Delhi to Arunachal Pradesh.
Sandeep Kumar Mishra (IAS:2015:AGMUT) has been transferred from Lakshadweep to Delhi.
Dr. Anil Agarwal (IAS:2015:AGMUT) has been transferred from Andaman & Nicobar to Delhi.
Anil Banka (IAS:2015:AGMUT) has been transferred from Delhi to Jammu & Kashmir.
YLN Reddy (IAS:2016:AGMUT) has been transferred from Puducherry to Mizoram.
Mohamed Mansoor L (IAS:2017:AGMUT) has been transferred from Puducherry to Chandigarh.
Rudra Goud PT (IAS:2017:AGMUT) has been transferred from Puducherry to Ladakh.
Vivek Kumar Tripathi (IAS:2018:AGMUT) has been transferred from Delhi to Mizoram.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (05.05.2025) chaired a high-level meetingof the committee responsible for selecting the next Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The meeting was attended by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna.
The meeting was convened at the Prime Minister’s Office in the evening to deliberate on the upcoming vacancy at the helm of the premier investigating agency.
The current CBI Director, Praveen Sood (IPS:1986:KN), is set to retire on May 25. Sood, a Karnataka cadre IPS officer and former state police chief, assumed charge of the CBI in May 2023, succeeding Subodh Kumar Jaiswal (IPS:1985:MH).
Rushing to the court against the Union Home Ministry’s orders is proving costly for former Chandigarh DGP Surendra Singh Yadav as his trouble began to confound. Since April 1, he has been transferred thrice. He was transferred from Chandigarh to the Border Security Force (BSF) overnight and sent to Delhi. He sought legal protection by rushing to the court, saying the Home Ministry appointed him to the post of DIG in BSF under his junior, but the court rejected his plea.
Yadav’s decision to go to the court against the Ministry of Home Affairs seems to have rubbed the bosses in the MHA the wrong way as he was transferred again from Delhi to Rajasthan for orientation, and now he has been sent to BSF headquarters in Chhattisgarh as DIG anti-Naxal operations. These transfers orders have been issued in quick succession.
In fact, Surendra Singh Yadav, a 1997 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the AGMUT cadre, was appointed as DGP in Chandigarh in March, 2024. But his actions brought ignominy to him. As Chandigarh DGP, he shot into the limelight when he transferred about 2763 police jawans who had been stuck in one place for a long time. Never before had such a large number of personnel been transferred. After this, he started attending public meetings including police personnel in the police stations.
He even got the police personnel involved in cases related to drug smuggling and corruption retired. Apart from this, cases were also registered against those who set up the police stations.
Yadav’s tenure as DGP is said to have left the police personnel horrified, so much so that most of the UT police personnel decided to leave the police department and applied for the VRS en masse.
The UT police personnel were reportedly so upset with their chief that they also made a letter viral on social media that contained abusive words against him.
These developments seem to have set the ball rolling and the tide was turned on the night of April 1, when the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued marching orders transferring DGP Yadav from Chandigarh to Delhi as DIG in BSF. Not only this, Yadav was asked to report to the Delhi headquarters with immediate effect.
He moved the court against it and is believed to be paying the price for it.
Notably, in recent days, three IPS officers have been shifted within the BSF. SS Yadav has now been posted to the Command Headquarters of the Anti-Naxal Operations in Chhattisgarh. Mr. Ashok Kumar, a 2006-batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IPS officer currently serving at the BSF Force Headquarters (FHQ) in New Delhi, has been appointed as Inspector General (Training) at the BSF FHQ. Mr. Jal Singh Meena, a 2010-batch Tripura cadre IPS officer posted as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) at BSF FHQ, has been assigned the role of DIG (Confidential), BSF.
In a significant development, the Government of India has, according to reports, asked Parameswaran Iyer, India’s Executive Director at the World Bank, to temporarily assume the additional charge as the country’s representative on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board. This comes ahead of a crucial IMF meeting on May 9 to consider Pakistan’s request for a fresh loan.
The appointment was made to fill the vacancy created by the abrupt termination of Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s tenure as Executive Director at the IMF, six months before its scheduled end. Subramanian’s exit, approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet with effect from April 30, forced him to withdraw from official IMF engagements, including a key meeting on May 2.
India’s decision to nominate Iyer is strategic, given its strong opposition to any further financial support to Pakistan, citing its continued involvement in financing cross-border terrorism. Tensions escalated further following a recent terror attack in Pahalgam, attributed to Pakistan, that claimed 26 lives.
Had the Indian seat remained vacant, it would have been assigned to Sri Lanka’s representative, Harischandra Pahath Kumbure Gedara, as per IMF protocol.
Parameswaran Iyer, who earlier served as CEO of NITI Aayog, currently represents India at the World Bank. His temporary nomination ensures continuity in India’s voice at a time when sensitive geopolitical and financial decisions are at stake.
The IMF Executive Board comprises 25 Executive Directors elected by member countries or constituencies, along with the Managing Director, and is responsible for the institution’s daily operations and major decisions.
Contrary to the prevailing atmosphere of speculation, the departure of senior IAS officer Nikunja Dhal (IAS:1993:OR) from the Odisha CMO has really spelt a sigh of relief for him. Dhal has moved to the Centre to join as Secretary in the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry. He was officially relieved by the Odisha government as Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister on Saturday.
Just a day after being relieved by the state government, Dhal took to social media to clear the air by sharing his plight towards the end of his posting in Odisha. In his LinkedIn post, Dhal has described the workload in Odisha as extraneous and stressful, being unable to even attend to his family and personal matters over the last 18 months.
According to the post, conducting the 2024 General Elections, conducted along with the assembly elections, as the Chief Electoral Officer was the most daunting task, and his subsequent posting as ACS to the Odisha CM exacerbated his situation. He describes how a hectic schedule and long working hours took a heavy toll on his health. Dhal laments in the post that his situation was so pitiable that he could not even take care of his health. So much so that he had to be hospitalized in March.
But Dhal is a happy man now after being moved to the Centre and hopes he will be in a better position to strike a comfortable balance between work and life, which he so miserably missed in his home state, Odisha, as per his post. He had returned to Odisha from central deputation in 2017.
In a significant administrative move, the Gujarat government on Saturday (03.05.2025) carried out a major bureaucratic reshuffle, assigning new responsibilities to 17 IAS officers across the state.
The names of officers and their postings are as follows;
DD Jadeja (IAS-SCS:2012), Collector, Gir-Somnath, has been transferred and posted as Mission Director, Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission, Gandhinagar.
NV Upadhyay (IAS-SCS:2013), Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted as Collector, .
Nitin Sangwan (IAS:2016:GJ), DDO, Junagarh, has been transferred and posted as Director, Employment & Training, Gandhinagar.
CC Kotak (IAS-SCS:2018), Deputy Director, Regional Training Centre (SPIPA), Mehsana, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Director General, Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA), Ahmedabad.
VI Patel (IAS-SCS:2019), Joint Secretary, Gujarat Public Service Commission, Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted as Additional Commissioner and Ex-officio CEO, Gujarat Municipal Finance Board, Gandhinagar.
PA Ninama (IAS-SCS:2020), Deputy Commissioner, O/o the Commissioner of Rural Development, Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted as Managing Director, Gujarat Women Economic Development Corporation, Gandhinagar.
BM Patel (IAS-SCS:2021), Director, DRDA, Dahod, has been transferred and posted as Regional Commissioner pf Municipalities, Gandhinagar.
JK Jadav (IAS-SCS:2021), Director, DRDA, Narmada-Rajpipla, has been transferred and posted as Executive Director, Gujarat State Tribal Development Residential Education Institute Society (GSTDREIS), Gandhinagar.
RV Vala (IAS-SCS:2021), Chief Administrative Officer, Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board (GWSSB), Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted Additional Development Commissioner, Gandhinagar.
NF Chaudhari (IAS-SCS:2021), Resident Additional Director, Junagarh, has been transferred and posted as Managing Director, Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited, Mehsana.
HP Patel (IAS-SCS:2021), Officer on Special Duty to Chief Minister, Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted as DDO, Junagarh.
DK Brahmbhatt (IAS-SCS:2021), Resident Additional Director, Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted as Managing Director, Gujarat Medical Services Corporation Limited, Gandhinagar.
MP Pandya (IAS-SCS:2021), Municipal Commissioner, Gandhidham Municipal Corporation, Gandhidham, has been transferred and posted as Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Gandhinagar.
KP Joshi (IPS-SPS:2021), Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Vadodara Municipal Corporation, Vadodara, has been transferred and posted as Managing Director, Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Ltd.
Kavita Rakash Shah (IAS-SCS:2021), Programme Officer (Admin), National Health Mission (NHM), Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted as Director, IT and E-Governance, Gandhinagar.
BD Davera (IAS-SCS:2021), Executive Director, Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), Gandhinagar, has been transferred and posted as Chief Executive Officer, Vadodara Urban Development Authority, Vadodara.
SK Patel (IAS-SCS:2021), Executive Director, Gujarat Council of Science City, Ahmedabad, has been transferred and posted as Managing Director, Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company Limited, Gandhinagar.
Preeti Sharma (IP&TAFS:2017), Joint Managing Director, Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Ltd. Rajkot, has been transferred and posted as Director (Administration), Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL), Vadodara.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday (04.05.2025) issued transfer and posting orders for six IAS officers.
The names of officers and their postings are as follows;
Avinash Krishna Singh (IAS-SCS:2009), Director General, Technical Education, has been given additional charge of Secretary, Technical Education.
A Dinesh Kumar (IAS:2012:UP), Special Secretary, Technical Education, has been transferred and posted as Special Secretary, Home Department.
Brijraj Singh Yadav (IAS-SCS:2012), Executive Director, State Drinking Water and Sanitation Mission, has been transferred and posted as Additional Land Settlement Commissioner, Revenue Board, Lucknow.
Vinod Kumar (IAS), Municipal Commissioner, Aligarh, has been transferred and posted as Special Secretary, Technical Education.
Prem Prakash Meena (IAS:2018:UP), CDO, Unnao, has been transferred and posted as Municipal Commissioner, Aligarh.
Kriti Raj (IAS:2021:UP), Join Magistrate, Firozabad, has been transferred and posted as CDO, Unnao.
Birendra Kumar Mishra (ISS:2012) has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Saturday, May 3, 2025, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved his appointment at Level 13 of the Pay Matrix.
Mishra’s tenure will extend up to March 31, 2028, which is his date of retirement, or be co-terminus with the Minister’s tenure, or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
IAS officer Shashank Mani Tripathi (IAS:2015:AGMUT), currently serving as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Cooperation, has been laterally shifted to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in the same capacity.
According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Saturday, May 3, 2025, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the Civil Services Board’s recommendation to shift Tripathi to MHA on a lateral basis.
He will serve in the new role until August 30, 2028 — the remaining tenure of his four-year central deputation under the Central Staffing Scheme — or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Tripathi began his central deputation on August 31, 2024.
In a recent development, Gangadhar Panda (IRS-IT:1993), currently serving as Additional DGFT in New Delhi, Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) under the Department of Commerce, has been repatriated to his parent cadre. According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Saturday (03.05.2025), the competent authority has approved the proposal of Department of Commerce for premature repatriation of Mr Panda to his parent cadre on personal grounds.
Panda has held the position since January 2023, following a government reshuffle announced on December 30, 2022, which reassigned 19 officers at the Joint Secretary level.
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