20+ Transfers in a Career: IAS & IPS Officers Who Faced the Most Transfers

The officers in the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) and Indian Police Services (IPS) are recruited through India’s most coveted examination known as the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE). Every year lakh of aspirants apply for this exam in the hope of becoming IAS & IPS officers. The first choice of most of the candidates is to become an IAS or IPS officer. Only a selected few will get the choice of their service. This requires a long journey of persistence, discipline, and continuity along with hard work and dedication. Once the aspirant gets appointed as an IAS or IPS officer, they are empowered with numerous responsibilities and duties which, in the first place, seems overwhelming, but takes a lot from a candidate to do justice to this role. In the past and in contemporary times too, there have been allegations of corruption and red-tapism on these bureaucrats and police officers. Despite all these allegations, there are many officers who have been transferred because they maintained integrity and honesty in their work. Here we are providing the list of such officers along with their career journey and biography.

List of IAS & IPS Officers Who Have Been Transferred 20+ Times

Many great officers have come into the Indian Administrative Services & Indian Police Services till date who have served the country in a more truthful manner showing ultimate dedication to their work and society. These officers are:

Pradeep Kasni

• He was the IAS Officer of 1997 batch.

Ashok Khemka

• Ashok Khemka is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of 1991 batch from Haryana cadre who formerly served as Additional Chief Secretary in the Government of Haryana.

• During his career of more than three decades, he worked solely for the state of Haryana. without a single deputation to the Central Government.

• He has been transferred 66 times during his career, making him the second-most transferred bureaucrat in Haryana, surpassed only by retired IAS officer Pradeep Kasni.

• Early Life & Education: He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal in 1965.

• He completed B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

• Then he pursued PhD in Computer Science from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). He also completed MBA in Business Administration & Finance.

KL Meena, Kamal Saxena & Vijay Singh

• Three of them are the IPS officers in the UP government who have been transferred 59 times, 48 times, and 47 times respectively in their career span.

• KL Meena: He was an IPS Officer of 1983 batch.

• Kamal Saxena: He was an IPS Officer of 1988 batch. He completed B.Tech in Chemical Engineering.

• Vijay Singh: He was an IPS Officer of 1981 batch. He holds a Degree in BA Hons. History.

Tukaram Mundhe

• In contemporary times, the IAS Officer who has been in the limelight for his strict and disciplinary actions is Tukaram Mundhe. Till date, he has been transferred 25 times in his career span of more than two decades. It is reported that he has not completed a full tenure in any of his postings. He is an IAS officer of 2005 batch from the Maharashtra cadre.

• Early Life & Education: He was born in an agricultural family in Beed in Maharashtra. He completed his bachelors’ degree from Government College of Arts & Science in Aurangabad. Then he completed his MA in Political Science from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University.

• Awards & Honors:

• Received the Maharashtra’s government Best Collector Award in 2015-16.

• National Award for Social Justice & Empowerment from the Union Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.

• In 2017, he received the National Award for the Best Integrated Traffic Management System