As many as 21 IAS officers of 2008 batch have been accorded with Selection Grade in West Bengal. The officers name are: Ms V Lalithalakshmi, Sourav Pahari, Ms Mukta Arya, Devi Prasad Karanam, Shakeel Ahmed, Uttam Kumar Patra, Santanu Saha, Nirmalya Ghosal, Anindya Narayan Biswas, Rabijyoti Majumdar, Tarun Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Dipankar Chowdhury, Rabindra Nath Sarkar, Ms Esha Sengupta, Ms Samistha Das, Nilanjana Sandilya, Soumya Purkait, Ms Dipika Sanyamath, Sristidhar Santra, Pemba Tshering Sherpa and Ms Mousmi Chattaraj Chaudhari.