Twenty Senior IAS Officers Across Multiple Cadres Set to Retire in May 2026
Twenty IAS officers from over a dozen state cadres retire in May 2026, marking a significant monthly churn across the Indian Administrative Service.
A total of 20 Indian Administrative Service officers drawn from cadres spanning the length and breadth of the country will hang up their boots this month. The retiring officers include G. Sai Prasad (Andhra Pradesh cadre), Mahadevo Kawre (Chhattisgarh), T. Bhatt (Gujarat), Vivek Joshi (Haryana), Sanjay Gupta (Himachal Pradesh), K. Leelavathy (Karnataka), John V. Samuel (Kerala), Alka Upadhyaya (Madhya Pradesh), Anil Udhavrao Diggikar (Maharashtra), and Kamal Lochan Mishra (Odisha). From Rajasthan, Laxmi Narain Mantri and Dr. Om Prakash Bairwa are stepping down, while Tamil Nadu sees the departure of V. Sampath, M. Vijayalakshmi, and M. Thangavel. Nagaraju Maddirala retires from the Tripura cadre and Anil Kumar I from Uttar Pradesh. The West Bengal cadre bids farewell to three officers: Sepuri Suresh Kumar, Sudeshna Pramanikgupta, and Anindya Sengupta. The retirements are spread across cadres and administrative levels, signalling a notable churn in the upper echelons of the civil services this month.
