18 IAS Officers Across Multiple State Cadres Set to Retire in April 2026

A total of 18 Indian Administrative Service officers from various state cadres and batches are scheduled to retire in April 2026, marking the conclusion of their careers in public administration.

The retiring officers span a wide geographic spread: Rajendra Kumar Sharma from the AGMUT cadre, B H Talati from Gujarat, Manohar Marandi and Sunil Kumar II from Jharkhand, R Gopakumar from Kerala, and Sanjay Kumar from Madhya Pradesh, reflecting the natural distribution of retirements across cadres that occurs each month based on individual officers' birth dates rather than any coordinated administrative scheduling.

Maharashtra contributes two officers to this retirement cohort, Deepak Kapoor and Seema Vyas, while Vimal Kumar Setia from Punjab also completes his tenure this month, rounding out the western and northern state representation within the list.

Tamil Nadu sees the retirement of four officers, Dr Sandeep Saxena, Hitesh Kumar S Makwana, T Abraham, and Dr S Natarajan, the largest single-state contingent in this cohort alongside West Bengal's four retiring officers, Atri Bhattacharya, Kaushick Saha, Arundhati Sarkar, and Anindya Mitra.

Dew Krishna Tiwari from Uttarakhand completes the list, bringing the retirement cohort's geographic span across nine states and union territories in a single month, illustrating how All India Service recruitment patterns from three to four decades ago continue to shape the current distribution of senior retirements across state cadres.

IAS retirements are governed by the standard superannuation age applicable to All India Service officers, with each officer's specific retirement date determined by their date of birth, meaning states affected by these retirements will need to manage the resulting senior-level vacancies through their standard promotion and transfer processes in the following weeks.

Their departure marks a routine but significant transition point across the administrative frameworks of the multiple states and union territories involved, as replacement postings are worked out at the state cadre level.