Seeking inter-cadre transfers by IAS or IPS on marriage ground is now catching the fancy of growing numbers of young bureaucrats who fell for a fellow officer after cracking the Civil Services Examination or found love life during their training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has revealed that there have 45 cases of cadre-transfers on marriage ground during the last five years.
Interestingly, UP seems to be emerging as a favourite destination with the result that number of IAS officers has suddenly increased in the state due to growing number of officers transferred here on grounds of marriage. The situation has come to such a pass that UP is often referred to as a ‘marriage ground’ among the bureaucrats. The cadre transfer on marriage ground, granted by the (DoPT), is allowed for the officers of the All India Services.
The list of IAS and IPS officers being transferred to UP cadre from another state is getting longer. A few of examples for better understanding are as follows:
Bharati Meena, a 2022-batch IAS of Assam-Meghalaya cadre was given cadre transfer to UP on the marriage ground. Her husband Raj Kumar Meena is an IPS officer of the same batch. She is yet to get posting.
A Maharashtra cadre IAS of 2021 batch, Devyani, joined UP cadre after her marriage to 2023 batch UP cadre IPS Shivam Ashutosh.
IAS officer Kritika Sharma, a 2014 IAS officer, was transferred from West Bengal cadre to UP on the same ground. She is married to her batchmate UP cadre IAS Abhishek Aanad.
Similarly, Megha Roopam, a 2014 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre, was transferred to UP on grounds of her marriage to batchmate IAS officer Manish Bansal.
It is not that only woman officers seek cadre-change to UP. West Bengal cadre IAS Vaibhav Srivastava, 2009 batch, was got his cadre transferred to UP on grounds of his marriage to Neha Prakash, a 2012 batch UP cadre IAS officer.
