Senior IAS officer Sudhansh Pant (IAS:1991:RJ), Secretary, Department of Justice and Empowerment, has been assigned additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).
According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Friday (May 22, 2026), the competent authority has approved the assignment of the additional charge with immediate effect till May 31, 2026.
He will hold the additional responsibility during the leave period of Saurabh Garg (IAS:1991:OR), who is currently serving as Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
IAS officer Pooja Joshi (IAS:2011:AGMUT), currently serving as General Manager,Tribal Co-operative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED), Bengaluru-South (Karnataka Region), has been prematurely repatriated to her parent cadre.
According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Friday (May 22, 2026), the competent authority has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs for her premature repatriation on personal grounds.
Pooja Joshi had been appointed to the post in August 2025 for a tenure up to September 30, 2026, which is also the date of her superannuation.
In a key development, the Centre has extended the deputation tenure of Anurag Garg (IPS:1993:HP) as Director General (DG) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) till July 31, 2027.
According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Thursday (May 21, 2026), the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal to extend his deputation tenure beyond May 23, 2026, up to July 31, 2027, which is also the date of his superannuation.
Anurag Garg was appointed as Director General of NCB on September 17, 2024, for a tenure up to May 23, 2026. He had replaced Anish Dayal Singh (IPS:1988:MH), who was then holding additional charge of the post along with his responsibilities as DG, CRPF.
The Bihar government on Friday (May 22, 2026) issued transfer and posting orders for 10 IAS officers in a significant administrative reshuffle, bringing important changes in the state’s bureaucratic set-up. Among the key changes, senior IAS officer Deepak Kumar has been appointed Principal Secretary to the Governor, Arvind Kumar Chaudhary has been shifted from the Home Department, while Kundan Kumar has been assigned additional charge of Secretary, Home Department.
Deepak Kumar (IAS:1992:BH), DG-cum-Chief Enquiry Commissioner, General Administration Department (GAD), has been transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Governor with additional charge of DG-cum-Chief Enquiry Commissioner, GAD.
Arvind Kumar Chaudhary (IAS:1995:BH), Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, with multiple additional responsibilities, has been transferred and posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat with additional charge of Examination Controller, Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board.
Dr B Rajender (IAS:1995:BH), Additional Chief Secretary, GAD, has been given additional charge of Additional Chief Secretary, Vigilance Department.
Kundan Kumar (IAS:2004:BH), Secretary, Industries Department, has been given additional charge of Secretary, Home Department.
Sanjay Kumar Singh (IAS:2007:BH), Secretary, Finance Department and Secretary to the Chief Minister’s Office, has been relieved of the charge of Enquiry Commissioner, GAD.
Seema Tripathi (IAS:2009:BH), Secretary, Bihar Human Rights Commission, Patna, has been given additional charge of Secretary, Revenue & Land Reforms Department.
Nilesh Ramchandra Deore (IAS:2011:BH), Special Secretary, Civil Aviation Department, has been given additional charge of Managing Director, Bihar State Housing Board.
Inayat Khan (IAS:2012:BH), Managing Director, Bihar State Educational Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited, has been assigned additional charge of Special Secretary, Revenue & Land Reforms Department.
Arvind Kumar Verma (IAS:2012:BH), Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat Department, has been given additional charge of Special Secretary, Industries Department.
Rajiv Kumar Srivastava (IAS:2013:BH), Managing Director, Bihar State Housing Board, has been transferred and posted as Additional Secretary, Finance Department.
The West Bengal government on Thursday issued transfer and posting orders for 17 IAS officers in a major administrative reshuffle across various departments and districts in the state. In a separate order issued the same day, IAS officer Shakil Ahmed was shifted and posted as Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department, awaiting further posting.
The transferred officers include:
Sujay Sarkar (IAS:2010:WB), Commissioner of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, has been transferred and posted as Commissioner, Textiles & Sericulture with additional charge of Managing Director, Tantuja.
Nitin Singhania (IAS:2013:WB), CEO of Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), has been appointed as Senior Special Secretary, Home & Hill Affairs Department and Member Secretary, Centre of Excellence in Public Management and Course Director, Satyendranath Tagore Civil Services Study Centre.
Dr Rajat Nanda (IAS:2013:WB), Senior Special Secretary in the Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department, Member Secretary, Centre of Excellence in Public Management and Course Director, Satyendranath Tagore Civil Services Study Centre, has been transferred and posted as Senior Special Secretary in the Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department with additional charge of Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat and Director (Information), I&CA Department.
Hindole Datta (IAS:2014:WB), Associate Professor at Netaji Subhas Administrative Training Institute, has been posted as Commissioner, Asansol Municipal Corporation.
Shaikh Ansar Ahamad (IAS:2016:WB), ADM, Malda, has been transferred as ADM, Paschim Medinipur.
Dhiman Barai (IAS:2016:WB), ADM, Purba Bardhaman, has been appointed as Special Secretary, TET & SD Department.
Prashant Raj Shukla (IAS:2017:WB), ADM, South 24 Parganas, has been posted as ADM, Bankura.
Suman Sourav Mohanty (IAS:2017:WB), ADM, Uttar Dinajpur, has been transferred as ADM, Paschim Bardhaman.
Rajesh (IAS:2017:WB), ADM, Dakshin Dinajpur, has been appointed as ADM, Jalpaiguri.
Ravi Agarwal (IAS:2017:WB), ADM, Purulia, has been posted as Commissioner, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation.
Priyadarshini S (IAS:2017:WB), ADM, Howrah, has been appointed as Special Secretary, Consumer Affairs Department.
Lakshmana Perumal R (IAS:2018:WB), ADM, Bankura, has been transferred as ADM, Jhargram.
Shinjan Shekhar (IAS:2018:WB), ADM, Jalpaiguri, has been posted as ADM, Howrah.
Archana Pandharinath Wankhede (IAS:2019:WB), ADM, Nadia, has been transferred as ADM, Purba Medinipur.
Manjeet Kumar Yadav (IAS:2020:WB), ADM, Bankura, has been appointed as ADM, South 24 Parganas.
Saurav Pandey (IAS:2020:WB), ADM, Uttar Dinajpur, has been transferred as ADM, Paschim Medinipur.
Ekam J Singh (IAS:2020:WB), ADM, Paschim Medinipur, has been posted as ADM, Bankura.
Separately, Shakil Ahmed (IPS:2012:WB), who was serving as Additional DLRS in the rank of Senior Special Secretary, has been shifted as OSD in the Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department pending further posting orders.
In one of the largest promotion exercises in recent years, as many as 21 Haryana Police Service (HPS) officers have been elevated to the Indian Police Service (IPS), with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs issuing a notification on Thursday.
The promotions, cleared by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on May 14, cover vacancies spread across six years from 2020 to 2025 and mark a significant career milestone for the officers.
The newly promoted officers include Rajeev Deswal, Mukesh Kumar, Dharambir Singh, Baljinder Singh, Jaibir Singh, Dhyan Singh Poonia, Tahir Hussain, Rajesh Kumar, Ravinder Kumar, Narinder Singh, Vijay Singh, Siddharth Dhanda, Mamta Kharb, Karan Goel and Sandeep Kumar, among others.
UPSC has also approved provisional inductions of two HPS officers. Sumer Singh’s induction will take effect only after clearance of pending disciplinary proceedings, while Tanya Singh’s promotion remains subject to the outcome of disciplinary and criminal proceedings against her.
Interestingly, four officers — Suresh Kumar, Virender Singh, Krishan Kumar and Raj Kumar Walia — have already retired from HPS service. However, they may still benefit from induction into IPS as the retirement age in IPS is 60 years, compared to 58 years in HPS.
The promotions cover five vacancies from 2020, four each from 2021 and 2022, one from 2023, three from 2024 and four arising in 2025.
Officials awaiting promotion have reportedly urged authorities to conduct such exercises annually, saying timely career progression helps improve morale among officers.
The process of appointing a regular Director General of Police (DGP) in Punjab may face further delay as the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has sought additional information from the Punjab government regarding senior IPS officer Sharad Satya Chauhan before convening the empanelment committee meeting.
The Punjab government had sent a list of 14 IPS officers to UPSC on April 6, from which the Commission is expected to shortlist three names for the post of DGP.
According to reports, UPSC has asked the state government to provide the present status of pending cases and supporting documents related to complaints against Sharad Satya Chauhan (IPS:1992:PB), Director of Punjab Vigilance Bureau and the senior-most officer among the 14 names under consideration.
The query came days after the CBI conducted searches at the Punjab Vigilance Bureau headquarters in Mohali in connection with an alleged bribery case in which Chauhan’s reader, Inspector O.P. Singh Rana, is among the accused. Rana is currently absconding.
The development assumes significance as the Supreme Court had earlier pulled up several states, including Punjab, for continuing with officiating DGPs instead of appointing regular police chiefs in accordance with established procedures.
Punjab has been functioning with an officiating DGP since July 2022 after Gaurav Yadav (IPS:1992:PB) took charge following the leave of then state police chief V K Bhawra (IPS:1987:PB). The Punjab government had also passed the Punjab Police (Amendment) Bill in 2023 to create a separate mechanism for DGP appointments, but the legislation is still awaiting Presidential assent.
The Bombay High Court has provided big relief to former DGP and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey (IPS:1986:MH) by quashing two FIRs registered against him and several others in 2024.
The court held that the criminal proceedings initiated at the instance of businessman Sanjay Punamiya were “manifestly attended with mala fides” and amounted to an abuse of the legal process. It observed that the complaints appeared to be the outcome of a “desperate and vengeful mind” and were aimed at triggering a “fishing inquiry” in a matter that did not require investigation.
Apart from Pandey, the court also quashed FIRs against retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Sardar Patil, Police Inspector Manohar Patil, advocate Shekhar Jagtap, builder Shyamsundar Agrawal and members of his family.
Punamiya had alleged that Pandey and others were part of a conspiracy to falsely implicate him in criminal cases in 2021 and had also accused them of intimidation and document fabrication. However, the High Court found no material to support the allegations and noted that there was a long-standing dispute between Punamiya and the Agrawal family.
The court also observed that the allegations were vague, lacked specific details and appeared to be an afterthought, particularly in view of the three-year delay in filing the FIRs.
Emphasising that legal processes cannot be misused for personal motives, the High Court held that the registration of the FIRs was an abuse of the process of law and ordered that the proceedings be quashed.
The Centre on Thursday (May 21, 2026) appointed senior IPS officer Rajiv Singh (IPS:1993:TR), currently serving as Director General of Police (DGP), Manipur, as Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat.
According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved his appointment with effect from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Rajiv Singh’s transfer to New Delhi comes nearly three years after he assumed charge as Manipur DGP on June 1, 2023.
Rajiv Singh will replace Parag Jain (IPS:1989:PB), Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), who has been holding the post on an additional charge basis since November 12, 2025.
The position of Secretary (Security) has remained without a full-time incumbent since the retirement of Harinath Mishra (IPS:1990:KL) on July 31, 2025. The Centre had earlier appointed RA Chandra Sekhar (IPS:1991:KL), then Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau, to succeed Mishra. However, before assuming the post, he was appointed as Kerala DGP and repatriated to his cadre.
Following Mishra’s retirement, Manoj Govil (IAS:1991:MP), Secretary (Coordination), Cabinet Secretariat, had also held additional charge of the post.
The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday (May 20, 2026) issued transfer and posting orders for 15 IPS officers in a major police reshuffle, bringing significant changes across key police departments and district-level positions in the state.
The officers affected in the latest reshuffle include:
G Venkataraman, IPS, Director General of Police, Police Administration, Chennai, has been posted as Director General of Police, Civil Supplies CID, Chennai.
K Bhavaneeswari, IPS, Inspector General of Police, Headquarters, O/o DGP/HoPF, Tamil Nadu, has been posted as Inspector General of Police, Singappen Special Force, Chennai.
Avinash Kumar, IPS, Inspector General of Police, on compulsory wait, has been posted as Inspector General of Police (General), O/o DGP/HoPF, Tamil Nadu, Chennai.
Praveen Kumar Abhinapu, IPS, Inspector General of Police (General), O/o DGP/HoPF, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, has been transferred and posted as Inspector General of Police, North Zone, Chennai.
A Saravana Sundar, IPS, Inspector General of Police, on compulsory wait, has been posted as Inspector General of Police, Crime, Chennai.
J Mahesh, IPS, Deputy Inspector General of Police, on compulsory wait, has been posted as Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vellore Range, Vellore.
Dr P Vijay Kumar, IPS, Deputy Inspector General of Police/Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic (South), Greater Chennai Police, has been posted as Deputy Inspector General of Police/Joint Commissioner of Police, Law and Order (South Zone), Greater Chennai Police.
Abhishek Gupta, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Pudukkottai District, has been transferred and posted as Superintendent of Police, Thoothukudi District.
S Brinda, IPS, Superintendent of Police and Commandant, Tamil Nadu Special Police Regimental Centre, Avadi, has been posted as Superintendent of Police, Nilgiris District.
I Shahnaz, IPS, Superintendent of Police-I, Cyber Crimes Division, Cyber Crime Wing, Chennai, has been transferred and posted as Superintendent of Police, Kallakurichi District.
S Aravind, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Kallakurichi District, has been transferred and posted as Superintendent of Police, Kancheepuram District.
Allatipalli Pavan Kumar Reddy, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Law and Order, Tambaram Police Commissionerate, has been posted as Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore District.
Dr K Karthikeyan, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore District, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Commissioner of Police, Law and Order, Tambaram Police Commissionerate.
V Satish Kumar, IPS, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Tiruvannamalai Town, Sub-Division, Tiruvannamalai, has been promoted to the rank of Superintendent of Police and posted as Superintendent of Police, Thiruvarur.
Ravindra Kumar Gupta, IPS, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Villupuram, Sub-Division, Villupuram, has been promoted to the rank of Superintendent of Police and posted as Superintendent of Police, Pudukkottai District.
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