As many as 20 IAS officers of various cadres and batches are retiring in May, 2026. They are: G Sai Prasad of AP cadre; Mahadevo Kawre of Chhattisgarh; T Bhatt of Gujarat; Vivek Joshi of Haryana; Sanjay Gupta of Himachal Pradesh; K Leelavathy of Karnataka; of John V Samuel of Kerala; Alka Upadhyaya of MP; Anil Udhavrao Diggikar of Maharashtra; Kamal Lochan Mishra of Odisha; Laxmi Narain Mantri and Dr Om Prakash Bairwa of Rajasthan; V Sampath,  M Vijayalakshmi and M Thangavel of Tamil Nadu; Nagaraju Maddirala of Tripura; Anil Kumar I of Uttar Pradesh; Sepuri Suresh Kumar, Sudeshna Pramanikgupta, Anindya Sengupta of West Bengal cadre.