The year 2010 will see a big change at the top-level bureaucracy as 43 senior IAS officers holding the rank of secretaries to the Government of India would be retiring this year.

This is rather unusual for so many senior level bureaucrats to retire in such a short time. But then thanks to the government's lop-sided policy, officers from the 1976 batch are ocupying 85 key positions. It is not clear yet what prompted the Department of Personnel and Training to take such an absurd step. Retirement of such a largenumber of senior officials would not only create administrative hassles, it would hamper the decision making process.

The government is bound to face the heat up the demanding allies like the DMK and the Trinamool Congress who would want their favourite bureaucrats to hold top positions in as many ministries they can possibly wrest.
have corrupted the administration.

Apart from secretary level officials, there would be 12 vacancies for additional secretaries and 76 for joint secretaries.

Some of the secretary-level officials retiring in 2010 are as follows:

P V Bhide
Revenue Secretary
will retire on 31/01/2010

Raghav Sharan Pandey
Secretary Petroleum & Natural Gas
will retire on 31/01/2010

Rita Sharma
Secretary Union Ministry of Rural Development
will retire on 31/01/2010

T Nanda Kumar
Secretary Union Ministry of Agriculture
will retire on February 28, 2010

Satyanarayana Dash
Secretary
Union Ministry of Heavy Industries
will retire on 31/03/2010

Harishankar Brahma
Secretary Union Ministry
of Power
will retire on 30/04/2010

Sudha Pillai
Secretary
Planning Commisson
will retire on 30/04/2010


M Ramachandran
Secretary
Union Ministry of Urban
Development
will retire on
30/06/2010

Brahm Dutt
Secretary Union Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways
will retire on 31/07/2010


Gautam Buddha Mukherji
Secretary
Union Ministry of Tribal
Affairs will retire on 31/07/2010

Santha Sheela Nair
Secretary
Department of Mines
will retire on 31/07/2010

Sujit Banerjee
Secretary Union Ministry of Tourism
will retire on 31/07/2010

Rita Sinha SecretaryDepartment of
Land Resources will retire on 31/07/2010

Ashok Kumar
Secretary
Department of Pharmaceuticals will retire on
31/08/2010


Brijeshwar Singh
Chairman of
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
will retire on 31/08/2010

Subbaroyan Krishnan
Secretary Union Ministry of Fertilizers
will retire on 31/08/2010

Anil Kumar
Secretary Ministry of
Parliamentary Affairs
will retire on 31/08/2010

Dinesh Rai
Secretary
Union Ministry of Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises
will retire on 31/08/2010


Atul Chaturvedi
Secretary Union Minsiry of Steel will retire
31/08/2010


Bijoy Chatterjee
Secretary Department of Petro Chemicals
will retire on 30/09/2010

Bir Singh Parsheera
Secretary
Department of Official Language
will retire on 31/10/2010

U N Panjiyar
Secretary
Union Ministry of Water Resources
will retire on 31/10/2010


S Jalaja
Secretary
Department of AYUSH
will retire 31/10/2010


Shantanu Consul
Secretary
Department of Personnel,
will retire on 31/10/2010

Shashi Prakash
Principal Advisor in Union Ministry of
Home Affairs Inter-state Council
will retire on 31/10/2010

T K Viswanathan
Principal Advisor
Union Ministry of Law & Justice
will retire
31/10/2010

Kanuru Sujatha Rao
Secretary
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
will retire on 30/11/2010

N Gokulram
Officer on Special Duty
Cabinet Secretariat
30/11/2010

M Madhavan Nambiar
Secretary
Union Ministry of Civil Aviation
will retire on 30/11/2010

Vijai Sharma
Secretary
Union Ministry of Environment & Forests
will retire on 31/12/2010