Syed Abid Rashid shifted out, Sagar Dattatray posted to J&K
KD NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, Jan 4: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has ordered a wide-ranging reshuffle of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) officers belonging to the AGMUT cadre, triggering transfers and postings across multiple States and Union Territories, including Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Ladakh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Lakshadweep and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
The order, issued with the approval of the competent authority, has been implemented with immediate effect and will remain in force until further directions. It involves the relocation of over 30 IAS officers and more than 20 IPS officers, reflecting a routine but extensive cadre management exercise aimed at administrative balancing and rotation across the joint cadre.
As part of the reshuffle, several senior IAS officers have been moved out of Jammu and Kashmir. Santosh D. Vaidya has been transferred from Jammu and Kashmir to Delhi, while Niraj Kumar has also been shifted to the national capital. Syed Abid Rashid Shah, who was serving in the Union Territory, has been transferred to Chandigarh. Baseer Ul Haq Chaudhary has been moved from Jammu and Kashmir to Ladakh, and Saloni Rai has been transferred from Jammu and Kashmir to Delhi.
At the same time, the MHA has posted a number of IAS officers to Jammu and Kashmir from other AGMUT segments. Ashwani Kumar has been transferred from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir, while R. Alice Vaz and Anjali Sehrawat have also been moved from Delhi to the Union Territory. Sagar D. Dattatray has been posted from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to Jammu and Kashmir, while Akriti Sagar has been transferred from Arunachal Pradesh. Kumar Abhishek has also been moved from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir.
The reshuffle also includes several notable transfers among other AGMUT segments. Sanjeev Khirwar has been transferred from Ladakh to Delhi, while Padma Jaiswal has been moved from Puducherry to Delhi. Shurbir Singh has been posted from Delhi to Ladakh, and Yashpal Garg has been shifted from Arunachal Pradesh to Delhi. Sanjeev Ahuja has moved from Goa to Delhi, while officers such as Satyendra Singh Dursawat, Aman Gupta and Rahul Singh have been transferred from Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep to Delhi. Hemant Kumar and Vandana Rao have been posted to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, while Ravi Dadhich has been moved to Mizoram and Kinny Singh to Puducherry. Michael M. D’Souza has been transferred from Ladakh to Goa, Nikhil U. Dessai from DNH&DD to Goa, Ankita Mishra from Goa to Arunachal Pradesh, and Hari Kallikkat from Chandigarh to Delhi. Vishakha Yadav, Azharuddin Zahiruddin Quazi and Cheemala Siva Gopal Reddy have also been transferred to Delhi from Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Mizoram respectively.
The MHA order also covers a significant reshuffle of IPS officers across the AGMUT cadre. In postings affecting Jammu and Kashmir, Prashant Priya Gautam has been transferred from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir, while Sudhanshu Dhama has been moved from Arunachal Pradesh to the Union Territory. Sunny Gupta has also been posted from Andaman and Nicobar Islands to Jammu and Kashmir. Meanwhile, Rajinder Kumar Gupta has been transferred from Jammu and Kashmir to Puducherry, and Shobhit D. Saksena has been shifted from Jammu and Kashmir to Delhi.
Among other IPS movements, Ajit Kumar Singla has been transferred from Puducherry to Delhi, Mangesh Kashyap from Delhi to Arunachal Pradesh, and Rajiv Ranjan Singh from Delhi to Chandigarh. Officers including R.P. Meena, Rahool Alwal, Niharika Bhatt, Sachin Kumar Singhal, and Isha Singh have been transferred to Delhi from various AGMUT segments. Several others, including S.M. Prabhudessai, Shruti Arora and Akshat Kaushal, have been posted to Goa and Arunachal Pradesh, while Sandhya Swamy and Achin Garg have been moved from Delhi to Arunachal Pradesh.
The extensive reshuffle underscores the Centre’s continued emphasis on periodic cadre rotation within the AGMUT framework to ensure administrative exposure, balanced deployment of officers and effective governance across States and Union Territories.
