MHA Orders 49 AGMUT IAS-IPS Transfers Across Delhi, J&K, Andaman

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49 AGMUT IAS-IPS Transfers
49 AGMUT IAS-IPS Transfers

Indian Bureaucracy News, New Delhi, January 4, 2026 | At the start of the New Year, the Ministry of Home Affairs ordered the transfer of 49 senior officers, 31 IAS and 18 IPS, in an extensive administrative exercises of recent months, spanning Delhi and multiple Union Territories including Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Delhi witnessed the highest churn in the reshuffle. A total of 9 IAS and 5 IPS officers were moved out of the National Capital Territory, while Delhi received 22 new officers—15 IAS and 7 IPS, indicating significant administrative rotation within the capital’s governance structure. Of the IAS officers moved out from Delhi, four have been deployed to Jammu and Kashmir and two to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Among IPS officers earlier posted with the Government of the National Capital Territory (GNCT), three have been transferred to Arunachal Pradesh, while one each has been posted to Chandigarh and Jammu and Kashmir.

The transfers are significant for their scale and geographic spread, reshaping administrative and policing leadership across nearly all major Union Territories, particularly Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. With the Ministry of Home Affairs directly responsible for cadre postings in these regions, the reshuffle has a direct bearing on on-ground governance capacity and administrative continuity.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in particular, remain in focus amid public opposition and environmental scrutiny surrounding the ₹81,000–₹92,000 crore Great Nicobar Island (GNI) Project, launched in 2021 and steered by NITI Aayog. Implemented by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation, the project includes a 4-million-TEU International Container Transshipment Terminal at Galathea Bay, a 3,300-metre dual-use greenfield airport, a planned township spanning nearly 160 sq km, and a 450-MVA hybrid gas-solar power plant. As of early 2026, the project is under administrative, environmental, and judicial review, with statutory monitoring committees overseeing ecological, tribal, and regulatory compliance.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has appointed Hemant Kumar, a 2013-batch IAS officer, who previously served as Special CEO of the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) with additional charge as Special Commissioner (Development) and Special Secretary (Urban Development) in the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD). Vandana Rao, a 2015-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre and All India Rank 4 in the 2015 UPSC Civil Services Examination, has also been appointed. She previously served as Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate of West Delhi and has experience working with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

Jammu and Kashmir, now within the AGMUT cadre framework, featured prominently in the latest transfers. Five IAS officers were moved out and nine posted in, alongside IPS changes that saw two officers transferred out and three brought in. Inter-regional movement between Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh further reflects the Union Territory’s integration into a broader administrative pool.

These shifts trace back to the 2021 amendment to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which merged the IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service (IFS) cadres of the former state with the AGMUT cadre, overturning provisions in the 2019 law that had retained a separate J&K cadre.

The pace of this transition marked a departure from earlier practice. While it took nearly 15 years after accession for the first direct IAS recruit to enter the J&K cadre, the cadre itself was dissolved within 17 months of the 2019 reorganisation. Parliament approved the Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill in February 2021, formalising the shift.

The latest transfers indicate that cadre integration is no longer merely a legal or structural change but an operational reality. Officer movement across Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, and island territories reflects a unified administrative pool, with postings determined centrally rather than by legacy cadre boundaries.

List of the AGMUT cadre officers transferred is detailed below.

  • Delhi – IAS 15, IPS 07; Total 22 Officers
  • Jammu and Kashmir – IAS 06, IPS 03; Total 09 Officers
  • Arunachal Pradesh – IAS 01, IPS 04; Total 05 Officers
  • Andaman and Nicobar (IAS 02), Chandigarh (IAS 01, IPS 01), Ladakh (IAS 02), and Puducherry (IAS 01, IPS 01) – Total 02 Officers in each of the UT
  • Mizoram – IAS 01

Delhi – IAS 15, IPS 07; Total 22 Officers

  1. Shri Sanjeev Khirwar IAS (AGMUT 1994), transferred from Ladakh.
  2. Shri Santosh D Vaidya IAS (AGMUT 1998), transferred from Jammu & Kashmir.
  3. Smt Padma Jaiswal IAS (AGMUT 2003), transferred from Puducherry.
  4. Shri Yashpal Garg IAS (AGMUT 2008), transferred from Arunachal Pradesh.
  5. Shri Sanjeev Ahuja IAS (AGMUT 2008), transferred from Goa.
  6. Shri Niraj Kumar IAS (AGMUT 2010), transferred from Jammu & Kashmir.
  7. Shri Satyendra Singh Dursawat IAS (AGMUT 2012), transferred from Andaman and Nicobar.
  8. Shri Aman Gupta IAS (AGMUT 2013), transferred from Andaman and Nicobar.
  9. Shri Rahul Singh IAS (AGMUT 2013), transferred from Lakshadweep.
  10. Shri Arjun Sharma IAS (AGMUT 2015), transferred from Andaman and Nicobar.
  11. Smt Saloni Rai IAS (AGMUT 2016), transferred from Jammu & Kashmir.
  12. Shri Hari Kallikkat IAS (AGMUT 2018), transferred from Chandigarh.
  13. Smt Vishakha Yadav IAS (AGMUT 2020), transferred from Arunachal Pradesh.
  14. Shri Azharuddin Zahiruddin Quazi IAS (AGMUT 2020), transferred from Andaman and Nicobar.
  15. Shri Cheemala Siva Gopal Reddy IAS (AGMUT 2020), transferred from Mizoram.
  16. Shri Ajit Kumar Singla IPS (AGMUT 2004), transferred from Puducherry.
  17. Shri RP Meena IPS (AGMUT 2013), transferred from Arunachal Pradesh.
  18. Shri Rahool Alwal IPS (AGMUT 2014), transferred from Mizoram.
  19. Shri Shobhit D Saksena IPS (AGMUT 2015), transferred from Jammu & Kashmir.
  20. Smt Niharika Bhatt IPS (AGMUT 2015), transferred from Andaman and Nicobar.
  21. Shri Sachin Kumar Singhal IPS (AGMUT 2017), transferred from Arunachal Pradesh.
  22. Smt Isha Singh IPS (AGMUT 2021), transferred from Puducherry.

Jammu and Kashmir – IAS 06, IPS 03; Total 09 Officers

  1. Shri Ashwani Kumar IAS (AGMUT 1992), transferred from Delhi.
  2. Smt R Alice Vaz IAS (AGMUT 2005), transferred from Delhi.
  3. Smt Anjali Sehrawat IAS (AGMUT 2013), transferred from Delhi.
  4. Shri Sagar D Dattatray IAS (AGMUT 2014), transferred from DNH & DD.
  5. Smt Akriti Sagar IAS (AGMUT 2016), transferred from Arunachal Pradesh.
  6. Shri Kumar Abhishek IAS (AGMUT 2016), transferred from Delhi.
  7. Shri Prashant Priya Gautam IPS (AGMUT 2013), transferred from Delhi.
  8. Shri Sudhanshu Dhama IPS (AGMUT 2016), transferred from Arunachal Pradesh.
  9. Shri Sunny Gupta IPS (AGMUT 2020), transferred from Andaman and Nicobar.

Arunachal Pradesh – IAS 01, IPS 04; Total 05 Officers

  1. Smt Ankita Mishra IAS (AGMUT 2018), transferred from Goa.
  2. Shri Mangesh Kashyap IPS (AGMUT 2009), transferred from Delhi.
  3. Smt Sandhya Swamy IPS (AGMUT 2016), transferred from Delhi.
  4. Shri Akshat Kaushal IPS (AGMUT 2018), transferred from Goa.
  5. Shri Achin Garg IPS (AGMUT 2019), transferred from Delhi.

Goa – IAS 02, IPS 02; Total 04 Officers

  1. Shri Michael M DsoUza IAS (AGMUT 2015), transferred from Ladakh.
  2. Shri Nikhil U Dessai IAS (AGMUT 2016), transferred from DNH & DD.
  3. Shri SM Prabhudessai IPS (AGMUT 2014), transferred from Arunachal Pradesh.
  4. Smt Shruti Arora IPS (AGMUT 2018), transferred from Ladakh.

Andaman and Nicobar 

  1. Shri Hemant Kumar IAS (AGMUT 2013), transferred from Delhi.
  2. Smt Vandana Rao IAS (AGMUT 2015), transferred from Delhi.

Chandigarh

  1. Shri Syed Abid Rashid Shah IAS (AGMUT 2012), transferred from J&K.
  2. Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh IPS (AGMUT 2010), transferred from Delhi.

Ladakh

  1. Shri Shurbir Singh IAS (AGMUT 2004), transferred from Delhi.
  2. Shri Baseer UI Hag Chaudhary IAS (AGMUT2015), transferred from J&K.

Puducherry

  1. Shri Kinny Singh IAS (AGMUT 2014), transferred from Delhi.
  2. Shri Rajinder Kumar Gupta IPS (AGMUT 2014), transferred from J&K.

Mizoram

  1. Shri Ravi Dadhich IAS (AGMUT 2014), transferred from Delhi.

IndianBureaucracy.com wishes all the officers the very best.