Rahil Gupta
New Delhi, Nov 12: With administrative circles closely watching upcoming top-level bureaucratic realignments in the National Capital Territory, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) likely to keep the top post of Chief Secretary of Delhi anchored within the 1991 or 1992 batch of the AGMUT cadre.
Sources told Cross Town News that maintaining this batch seniority is seen as critical to ensuring that serving 1992-batch Additional Chief Secretaries and senior officers currently posted in Delhi can continue in their assignments without facing protocol or supersession hurdles.
In standard bureaucratic convention across states and Union Territories, appointing a junior-batch officer as Chief Secretary typically triggers the transfer or central deputation of senior-batch officers serving in the same administration—a pattern recently witnessed in Jammu & Kashmir following the appointment of 1995-batch officer Sajjan Singh Yadav as Chief Secretary, which prompted the immediate transfer of 1992-batch officer Ashwani Kumar and 1994-batch officer Dr. Ashish Chandra Verma back to Delhi along with posting of Shaleen Kabra as DG IMPA in Jammu and Kashmir. Rajeev Verma, currently serving as the Chief Secretary of Delhi (having assumed charge on October 1, 2025), Verma’s positioning from the 1992 batch has allowed batchmates and peer-level officers to operate smoothly within the Delhi Secretariat.
With Ashwani Kumar and Bipul Pathak , there are alerady two IAS officers of 1992 batch there.
Now the options if the incumbent Chief Secretary Rajeev Verma is not given extension are Debashree Mukherjee and Manish Kumar Gupta ( only 7 months Service left) , both from 1991 batch ,as per details with Cross Town News.
As per details with Cross Town News , the Officers from 1992 batch are Vijay Kumar , Shaleen Kabra , Ashwani Kumar and Bipul Pathak , whereas Kabra , Ashwani and Pathak are having experience of working in Jammu and Kashmir too.
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