State gets 6 new IAS officers; only 2 hail from state

The Central government has allocated six new IAS officers to Haryana, which will help mitigate the shortage of officers in the state.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), in its latest cadre allocation exercise for IAS officers of the 2024 batch, has allocated six officers to Haryana—two hailing from the state and four from outside.

Muskan Srivastava, who secured the 53rd rank and hails from Madhya Pradesh, has been allotted Haryana cadre. The others are Delhi resident Vishal Singh (ranked 56), Amitej Pangtey (222) and Soham Sailendra (235). Shivani Panchal (53) and Vivek Yadav (272) have been assigned their home cadre.

However, several officers hailing from Haryana, who were among the top 100 in the All India Civil Services Examination, 2024-25, have been allocated non-Haryana cadre. They include Harshita Goyal (ranked 2), who has been allocated Gujarat cadre; Aditya Vikram Agarwal (9), who gets UP cadre; and Deepak Godara (92), who has been allocated AGMUT cadre.

Three other officers from the state—Tejasav, Jitender Kumar and Vishal have been allocated West Bengal, AGMUT and Himachal Pradesh cadres, respectively.

Official sources said the addition of six new officers to the state cadre would go a long way in reducing the shortage of IAS officers in Haryana. Several officers have been holding multiple charges, affecting administrative efficiency.

With a sanctioned strength of 215, Haryana has been facing a shortage of about 30 officers. The shortage was acute until August this year, when 15 HCS officers were elevated to IAS.