As many as 22 IAS officers of various cadres and batches are retiring in February 2026. They are: Chou Nakacham Longphai of AGMUT cadre; Md Nayyer Iqubal and Rakesh Kumar of Bihar cadre; M K Dave of Gujarat cadre; Rajesh Sharma of HP;  Krishna Kumar Singh of Jharkhand; Urmila Surendra Shukla of MP; Vivek Bhimanwar of Maharashtra; Ms Shakuntala Bindhani of Odisha; Arun Sekhri and Arvind Pal Singh Sandhu of Punjab; Dr Pratibha Singh of Rajasthan; Dr K Gopal of Tamil Nadu; Tarun Kanti Debnath of Tripura; Dr Devesh Chaturvedi, Subhash Chand Sharma, Chandra Bhushan Singh and Atal Kumar Rai of UP; Deependra Kumar Chaudhary of Uttarakhand and Vivek Kumar, Parthapratim Manna and Arup Sengupta of West Bengal cadre.