The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the steel frame of Indian governance, with officers who translate policy into action, run districts, and steer everything from the state Secretariat to public corporations. 

In Maharashtra, one of India’s largest and most industrialised states, that work stretches from Mantralaya in Mumbai to tribal sub-divisions in Gadchiroli and Nandurbar.

This guide covers the Maharashtra IAS cadre by role and location, including senior Secretariat officials, District Collectors, Municipal Commissioners, and Zilla Parishad CEOs. 

How Many IAS Officers Are There in Maharashtra?

The Maharashtra cadre carries 358 officers on its civil list, jointly managed by the Government of Maharashtra and the Government of India. Here are the headline figures drawn from the current list:

Parameter	Details
Officers on the civil list	358
Posted in Mumbai (Mantralaya & city)	148
On central deputation / abroad	22
Under training at LBSNAA	15
District Collectors	35
Allotment years covered	1989 – 2025

Source: IAS Civil List

IAS Officers in Maharashtra

The following table lists 358 IAS officers in the Maharashtra cadre, along with their names as recorded in the civil list.

Sr. No.	Officer Name	Batch (Allotment Year)
1	Shri Rajesh Aggarwal	1989
2	Shri Iqbal Singh Chahal	1989
3	Shri Bhushan A Gagrani	1990
4	Ms. Meeta R Lochan	1990
5	Shri Anil Udhavrao Diggikar	1990
6	Shri Deepak Kapoor	1991
7	Shri Om Prakash Gupta	1992
8	Ms. Manisha Mhaiskar	1992
9	Shri Sanjay Sethi	1992
10	Ms. Seema Vyas	1992
11	Shri Milind Jayant Mhaiskar	1992
12	Shri Sanjeev Kumar	1993
13	Ms. Manisha Verma	1993
14	Shri Lokesh Chandra	1993
15	Ms. Abha Shukla	1993
16	Shri Surendra Kumar Bagde	1993
17	Shri Vikas Shankar Kharge	1994
18	Ms. Vennelaganti Radha	1994
19	Shri B. Venugopal Reddy	1994
20	Shri Santosh Kumar	1994
21	Dr. (Ms.) Sonia Sethi	1994
22	Shri Asheemkumar S K Gupta	1994
23	Ms. Ashwini Satish Bhide	1995
24	Ms. Radhika Rastogi	1995
25	Dr. K H Govinda Raj	1995
26	Shri Vikas Chandra Rastogi	1995
27	Dr. Sanjay Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee	1996
28	Shri Rupinder Singh	1996
29	Ms. Vinita Vaid Singal	1996
30	Shri S Chockalingam	1996
31	Shri Sanjay J Khandare	1996
32	Shri Sanjeev Jaiswal	1996
33	Shri Paraag Jaiin Nainuttia	1996
34	Ms. Idzes Angmo Kundan	1996
35	Shri Asheesh Sharma	1997
36	Shri Vijay Singhal	1997
37	Shri Eknath Rajaram Dawale	1997
38	Dr. Harshdeep S Kamble	1997
39	Shri Rajeev Kumar Mital	1998
40	Shri Saurabh Vijay	1998
41	Shri Pravin Chindu Darade	1998
42	Shri Ranjeet Singh Deol	1998
43	Shri Kunal Kumar	1999
44	Ms. Richa Bagla	1999
45	Ms. Anshu Sinha	1999
46	Shri Atul Nilkantha Patne	1999
47	Ms. Indra Mallo	1999
48	Shri N Nawin Sona	2000
49	Shri Niranjan Kr. Sudhansu	2000
50	Shri Piyush Singh	2000
51	Ms. Vijayalakshmi Prasanna Bidari	2001
52	Dr. Nipun Vinayak	2001
53	Dr. Shrikar Keshav Pardeshi	2001
54	Dr. (Ms.) Nidhi Pandey	2001
55	Ms. Prajakta L. Verma	2001
56	Dr. Anbalagan P.	2001
57	Shri P Velrasu	2002
58	Dr. Praveen N Gedam	2002
59	Shri Pankaj Kumar	2002
60	Dr. Anup Kumar Yadav	2002
61	Shri M. Sankaranarayanan	2003
62	Shri Saurabh Rao	2003
63	Dr. Sanjeev Kumar	2003
64	Ms. Shaila A	2003
65	Ms. Jayashree S Bhoj	2003
66	Shri Vikram Kumar	2003
67	Shri Parimal Singh	2004
68	Dr. Ramaswami N	2004
69	Shri Vijay B Waghmare	2004
70	Shri Shravan P Hardikar	2005
71	Dr. Vipin Sharma	2005
72	Shri Tukaram H Mundhe	2005
73	Shri Rahul Ranjan Mahiwal	2005
74	Shri Dheeraj Kumar	2005
75	Dr. (Ms.) Ashwini M Joshi	2005
76	Shri Abhishek Krishna	2005
77	Shri Virendra Singh	2005
78	Shri Deependra S Kushwah	2005
79	Shri Om Prakash Bakoria	2005
80	Dr. V. N. Suryawanshi	2006
81	Dr. Amit Saini	2007
82	Dr. (Ms.) Madhavi Khode Chaware	2007
83	Shri Sachindra Pratap Singh	2007
84	Shri Ashwin Ashok Mudgal	2007
85	Dr. Nirupama J Dange	2007
86	Shri Nitin K. Patil	2007
87	Shri Abhay A. Mahajan	2007
88	Dr. Mahendra P. Kalyankar	2007
89	Ms. Sampada Suresh Mehta	2008
90	Shri Abhijit Sudhakar Bangar	2008
91	Shri Radhakrishnan B	2008
92	Ms. Rubal Prakher Agarwal	2008
93	Shri Ranjit Kumar	2008
94	Shri E Ravendiran	2008
95	Shri Naval Kishore Ram	2008
96	Shri Ganesh B. Patil	2008
97	Shri Milend P. Shambharkar	2008
98	Smt. Naina A. Gunde	2008
99	Ms. Swati Yogesh Mhase Patil	2008
100	Dr. Rajesh B. Deshmukh	2008
101	Dr. Chandrakant L. Pulkundwar	2008
102	Dr. Hanmanlu P. Tummod	2008
103	Ms. Shweta Singhal	2009
104	Ms. Sheetal Banavaraj Teli Ugale	2009
105	Dr. Prashant B. Narnaware	2009
106	Shri Pradeep P	2009
107	Shri Ruchesh Jaivanshi	2009
108	Shri Amgothu Sri Ranga Naik	2009
109	Shri G Sreekanth	2009
110	Shri Lahu S. Mali	2009
111	Shri Subhas K. Diwase	2009
112	Ms. Vimala R.	2009
113	Shri Rajesh J. Narvekar	2009
114	Shri Manik G. Gursal	2009
115	Shri Sanjay L. Yadav	2009
116	Dr. Kiran P. Kulkarni	2009
117	Shri Appaso Balappa Dhulaj	2009
118	Shri Yogesh P. Mhase	2009
119	Dr. Ashok N. Karanjkar	2009
120	Shri Vivek L. Bhimanwar	2009
121	Shri Shelesh Nawal	2010
122	Shri Ashutosh Salil	2010
123	Ms. Suman Chandra	2010
124	Shri Anil Bhandari	2010
125	Shri Uday G. Chaudhari	2010
126	Ms. Prerna H. Deshbhratar	2010
127	Shri Rahul Dwivedi	2010
128	Dr. Kadambari Bai Kawade	2010
129	Shri Manojkumar M. Suryawanshi	2010
130	Shri Jitendra S. Papalkar	2010
131	Shri Suraj D. Mandhare	2010
132	Dr. Sanjay G. Kolte	2010
133	Shri Avinash K. Dhakane	2010
134	Shri Ashok W. Kakade	2010
135	Shri Chandrakant K. Dange	2010
136	Shri Kailash Sukhdeo Pagare	2010
137	Shri Milind N. Borikar	2010
138	Shri Rahul Ashok Rekhawar	2011
139	Ms. Deepa Vishwas Mudhol Munde	2011
140	Shri P Siva Sankar	2011
141	Dr. Abhijeet V. Chaudhari	2011
142	Shri Astik Kumar Pandey	2011
143	Shri M. Devender Singh	2011
144	Shri Sushil Khodwekar	2011
145	Shri Sanjay Meena	2011
146	Shri Kanhuraj Harishchandra Bagate	2011
147	Shri Bhausaheb Bansi Dangade	2011
148	Shri Kishan Narayanrao Jawale	2011
149	Shri Deelip Veerpakshappa Swami	2011
150	Shri Sanjay Ramrao Chavan	2011
151	Shri Siddharam Karabasayya Salimath	2011
152	Shri Raghunath Khandu Gawade	2011
153	Smt. Kavita Vishwanth Dwivedi	2011
154	Shri Pravin Kundlik Puri	2011
155	Shri Vinay Sadashiv Moon	2011
156	Shri Pradipkumar Krishnarao Dange	2011
157	Smt. Varsha Damodar Thakur Ghuge	2011
158	Dr. Anil Ganpatrao Ramod	2011
159	Shri Shantanu Goel	2012
160	Shri Ravindra L Binwade	2012
161	Shri Deepak Singla	2012
162	Dr. Kunal Prakash Khemnar	2012
163	Shri Aribam R. Sharma	2012
164	Shri Shekhar Singh	2012
165	Shri Laxminarayan Mishra	2012
166	Ms. Nidhi Choudhari	2012
167	Shri M J Pradip Chandren	2012
168	Shri Neelesh Ramesh Gatne	2012
169	Shri Sanjay Bhayyaji Daine	2012
170	Shri Kaustabh C. Diwegaonkar	2013
171	Ms. K. Manjulakshmi	2013
172	Shri Gangatharan D.	2013
173	Shri Abhijit Rajendra Raut	2013
174	Shri S. Ramamoorthy	2013
175	Shri Shanmugarajan S.	2013
176	Shri Deepak Kumar Meena	2013
177	Shri Rajendra Bharud	2013
178	Shri Bhanudas H Palawe	2013
179	Shri Sameer Madhav Kurtkoti	2013
180	Shri Santosh C Patil	2013
181	Shri Dnyaneshwar Kondibhau Khilari	2013
182	Shri R S Chavan	2013
183	Shri G M Gadilkar	2013
184	Shri P B Khaple	2013
185	Shri A P Pathak	2013
186	Shri G R Kharat	2013
187	Dr. P P Deore	2013
188	Shri M W Salwe	2013
189	Shri M P Deshmukh	2013
190	Dr. B N Bastewad	2013
191	Dr. Deepak Ramchandra Taware	2013
192	Shri Kailas B. Shinde	2013
193	Ms. Pavneet Kaur	2014
194	Ms. Manisha Khatri	2014
195	Ms. Aanchal Goyal	2014
196	Shri Jalaj Sharma	2014
197	Ms. Nima Arora	2014
198	Dr. Vipin Vithoba Itankar	2014
199	Dr. Vijay C Rathod	2014
200	Dr. Mantada Raja Dayanidhi	2014
201	Shri Amol Jagannath Yedage	2014
202	Shri Prithviraj B P	2014
203	Shri Satishkumar Dattatraya Khadke	2014
204	Shri Sanjay Shripatrao Katkar	2014
205	Dr. Madhav Namdeo Kusekar	2014
206	Shri Parag Suresh Soman	2014
207	Shri Anilkumar Khanderao Pawar	2014
208	Shri Sachin Bandopant Kalantre	2014
209	Shri Shridhar Baburao Dube	2014
210	Shri Vikas Maruti Pansare	2014
211	Shri Manoj Vijay Ranade	2014
212	Dr. B. N. Patil	2014
213	Shri Aman Mittal	2015
214	Shri Vinay Gowda G C	2015
215	Shri Ayush Prasad	2015
216	Ms. Buveneswari S.	2015
217	Shri Sachin C Ombase	2015
218	Ms. Vanmathi C	2015
219	Shri Ajit Balaso Kumbhar	2015
220	Shri Rahul Kashinath Kardile	2015
221	Shri Sanjay Dnyandeo Pawar	2015
222	Shri Nandkumar Chaitram Bedse	2015
223	Shri Sunil Balajirao Mahindrakar	2015
224	Shri Ravindra Jivajirao Khebudkar	2015
225	Shri Nilesh Gorakh Sagar	2015
226	Shri Laxman Bhika Raut	2015
227	Shri Babasaheb Jai Indar Beldar	2015
228	Shri Jagdish Gopikishan Miniyar	2015
229	Ms. Madhavi Sameer Sardeshmukh	2015
230	Dr. (Ms.) Jyotsna Gururaj Padiyar	2015
231	Shri Annasaheb Dadu Chavan	2015
232	Shri Gopichand Murlidhar Kadam	2015
233	Shri Bapu Gopinathrao Pawar	2015
234	Shri Mahesh Vishwas Awhad	2015
235	Ms. Vaidehi Manoj Ranade	2015
236	Shri Vivek Bansi Gaikwad	2015
237	Ms. Nandini Milind Awade	2015
238	Ms. Varsha Mukund Ladda	2015
239	Shri Mangesh Hiraman Joshi	2015
240	Ms. Anita Nikhil Meshram	2015
241	Ms. Geetanjali Shriram Raviskar	2015
242	Shri Dilip Dnyandeo Jagdale	2015
243	Shri Arjun Kisanrao Chikhale	2015
244	Dr. Kiran N. Patil	2015
245	Smt. Leena Moreshwar Bansod	2015
246	Dr. H. S. Vasekar	2015
247	Dr. M. M. Gondavale	2015
248	Shri Yogesh V. Kumbhejkar	2016
249	Dr. (Ms.) Indurani Jakhar	2016
250	Dr. Pankaj Ashiya	2016
251	Shri Abhinav Goel	2016
252	Dr. Shrikrishnanath B. Panchal	2016
253	Shri Kumar Ashirwad	2016
254	Shri Saurabh Katiyar	2016
255	Shri Jitendra Dudi	2016
256	Shri Vijaysingh Shankarrao Deshmukh	2016
257	Shri Vijay Sahadeorao Bhakre	2016
258	Shri Trigun Shamrao Kulkarni	2016
259	Shri Gajanan Dhondiram Patil	2016
260	Shri Mahesh Bhaskarrao Patil	2016
261	Shri Pankaj Santosh Deore	2016
262	Shri Manjiree Madhusudan Manolkar	2016
263	Ms. Asha Afzalkhan Pathan	2016
264	Ms. Rajlaxmi Shafique Shah	2016
265	Ms. Sonali Nilkanth Muley	2016
266	Shri Gajendra Chintamanrao Bawane	2016
267	Ms. Pratibha Samadhan Ingle	2016
268	Shri Dileep Bhalchandra Sardesai	2016
269	Ms. Mittali Sethi	2017
270	Shri Rahul Gupta	2017
271	Shri Manuj Jindal	2017
272	Ms. Vasumana Pant	2017
273	Shri Avishyant Panda	2017
274	Shri Prajit Prabhakaran Nair	2017
275	Ms. Bhagyashree Dilip Vispute	2017
276	Shri Anand Subhashlal Bhandari	2017
277	Ms. Ashima Mittal	2018
278	Shri Keerthi Kiran H Pujar	2018
279	Shri Rohan Bapurao Ghuge	2018
280	Shri Ashish Yerkear	2018
281	Shri Vivek Johnson	2018
282	Shri Vikas Meena	2018
283	Ms. Varsha Meena	2018
284	Ms. Saumya Sharma	2018
285	Ms. Trupti Ankush Dhodmise	2019
286	Shri Ankit	2019
287	Shri Shubham Gupta	2019
288	Ms. Minal Karanwal	2019
289	Dr. Maynak Ghosh	2019
290	Ms. Manisha Manikrao Awhale	2019
291	Shri Anmol Sagar	2019
292	Shri Sawan Kumar	2019
293	Shri Vaibhav Dasu Waghmare	2019
294	Ms. Ayushi Singh	2019
295	Ms. Vaishanavi B.	2019
296	Shri Aziz Karim Shaikh	2019
297	Dr. Bhalchandra Pratap Chavan	2019
298	Ms. Neha Bhosle	2020
299	Ms. Sanjita Mohapatra	2020
300	Shri Mandar Jayantrao Patki	2020
301	Shri Karthikeyan S.	2020
302	Shri Kuladeep Jangam	2020
303	Shri Vishal Tejrao Narwade	2020
304	Shri Muruganantham M	2020
305	Shri Jithin Rahman	2020
306	Ms. Yashni Nagarajan	2020
307	Ms. Natisha Mathur	2020
308	Ms. R Anjali	2020
309	Ms. Karishma Nair	2021
310	Shri Satyam Gandhi	2021
311	Ms. Kavali Meghana	2021
312	Shri Suhas Laxman Gade	2021
313	Shri Vinayak Prakashrao Mahamuni	2021
314	Shri Rahul Kumar Meena	2021
315	Shri Pulkit Singh	2021
316	Ms. Minnu P M	2021
317	Shri Aditya Chandrabhan Jiwane	2021
318	Ms. Mansi	2021
319	Ms. Priyamvada Ashok Mhaddalkar	2022
320	Shri Arpit Chauhan	2022
321	Shri Naman Goyal	2022
322	Shri Navandar Anay Nitin	2022
323	Ms. Jasmine	2022
324	Shri Akunuri Naresh	2022
325	Shri Amit Ranjan	2022
326	Ms. Anjali Sharma	2022
327	Dr. (Ms.) Apoorva Basur	2022
328	Shri Pawar Omkar Madhukar	2022
329	Shri Donthula Zenith Chandra	2022
330	Shri Khatri Vishal Dinanath	2022
331	Shri Yadav Ranjit Mohan	2022
332	Shri Kushal Jain	2022
333	Dr. Krishna Kant Kanwaria	2022
334	Shri Siddharth Shukla	2023
335	Ms. Laghima Tiwari	2023
336	Dr. G V S Pavandatta	2023
337	Ms. Sankhe Kashmira Kishor	2023
338	Shri B Saravanan	2023
339	Ms. Arpita Ashok Thube	2023
340	Shri Raut Amar Bhimrao	2023
341	Shri Dongre Revaiah	2023
342	Shri Arun	2023
343	Ms. Donuru Ananya Reddy	2024
344	Shri P K Sidharth Ramkumar	2024
345	Shri Kush Motwani	2024
346	Shri Akash Verma	2024
347	Shri Nandala Saikiran	2024
348	Ms. Kowsalya M	2024
349	Shri Yogesh Kumar Meena	2024
350	Shri Shivansh Singh	2024
351	Shri Divyank Gupta	2025
352	Dr. R Rangamanju	2025
353	Ms. Shobhika Pathak	2025
354	Shri Amal P V	2025
355	Ms. Apsara N	2025
356	Dr. Jaykumar Shankar Ade	2025
357	Dr. Pankaj Patle	2025
358	Dr. Doke Ajay Kashiram	2025

Chief Secretary & Additional Chief Secretaries

The most senior officers, from the 1989–1994 batches, hold the Chief Secretary’s chair and the Additional Chief Secretary posts that run the big departments from Mantralaya, Mumbai.

Sr.	IAS Officer	Batch	Current Posting
1	Shri Rajesh Aggarwal	1989	Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra, Mantralaya, Mumbai
2	Shri Iqbal Singh Chahal	1989	Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Home Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
3	Shri Bhushan A Gagrani	1990	Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (BMC)
4	Ms. Meeta R Lochan	1990	Secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes, M/o Social Justice & Empowerment (Central Deputation)
5	Shri Anil Udhavrao Diggikar	1990	Additional Chief Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department
6	Shri Deepak Kapoor	1991	Additional Chief Secretary, Water Resources Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
7	Shri Om Prakash Gupta	1992	Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue), Finance Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
8	Ms. Manisha Mhaiskar	1992	Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
9	Shri Sanjay Sethi	1992	Additional Chief Secretary (Transport and Ports), Home Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
10	Ms. Seema Vyas	1992	Additional Chief Secretary and SBO-1, General Administrative Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
11	Shri Milind Jayant Mhaiskar	1992	Additional Chief Secretary (Forest), Revenue & Forest Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
12	Shri Sanjeev Kumar	1993	Secretary, Department of Defence Production, M/o Defence, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
13	Ms. Manisha Verma	1993	Additional Chief Secretary, Skill Development, Employment and Innovation Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
14	Shri Lokesh Chandra	1993	Chairman & Managing Director, Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd. (MahaDiscom), Mumbai
15	Ms. Abha Shukla	1993	Additional Chief Secretary (Energy), Industries, Energy & Labour Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
16	Shri Surendra Kumar Bagde	1993	Director General, National Centre for Good Governance, DARPG, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
17	Shri Vikas Shankar Kharge	1994	Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue, Registration and Stamp), Revenue and Forest Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
18	Ms. Vennelaganti Radha	1994	Additional Chief Secretary (Personnel), General Administration Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
19	Shri B. Venugopal Reddy	1994	Additional Chief Secretary, Higher and Technical Education Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
20	Shri Santosh Kumar	1994	Additional Chief Secretary and OSD (Appeal), Revenue & Forest Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai
21	Dr. (Ms.) Sonia Sethi	1994	General Manager, BEST, Mumbai
22	Shri Asheemkumar S K Gupta	1994	Additional Chief Secretary (1), Urban Development Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai

Divisional Commissioners

Maharashtra’s revenue divisions are each headed by a Divisional Commissioner, overseeing the Collectors below them.

Sr.	IAS Officer	Batch	Division
1	Ms. Vijayalakshmi Prasanna Bidari	2001	Nagpur
2	Dr. Praveen N Gedam	2002	Nashik
3	Dr. V. N. Suryawanshi	2006	Mumbai
4	Dr. Chandrakant L. Pulkundwar	2008	Pune
5	Ms. Shweta Singhal	2009	Amravati
6	Shri Jitendra S. Papalkar	2010	Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar

District Collectors Across Maharashtra

The Collector (District Magistrate) is the face of the government in each district — responsible for revenue, land, disaster management, elections and law-and-order coordination. These are the officers currently holding district charge.

Sr.	IAS Officer	Batch	District (as Collector)
1	Shri Ashok W. Kakade	2010	Sangli
2	Shri Kishan Narayanrao Jawale	2011	Raigad
3	Shri Deelip Veerpakshappa Swami	2011	Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar
4	Shri Sanjay Ramrao Chavan	2011	Parbhani
5	Smt. Varsha Damodar Thakur Ghuge	2011	Latur
6	Shri Santosh C Patil	2013	Satara
7	Ms. Aanchal Goyal	2014	Mumbai
8	Dr. Vipin Vithoba Itankar	2014	Nagpur
9	Shri Amol Jagannath Yedage	2014	Kolhapur
10	Shri Vinay Gowda G C	2015	Chandrapur
11	Shri Ayush Prasad	2015	Nashik
12	Ms. Vanmathi C	2015	Wardha
13	Shri Rahul Kashinath Kardile	2015	Nanded
14	Dr. Kiran N. Patil	2015	Collector
15	Shri Yogesh V. Kumbhejkar	2016	Washim
16	Dr. (Ms.) Indurani Jakhar	2016	Palghar
17	Dr. Pankaj Ashiya	2016	Ahilyanagar
18	Dr. Shrikrishnanath B. Panchal	2016	Thane
19	Shri Kumar Ashirwad	2016	Solapur
20	Shri Saurabh Katiyar	2016	Mumbai
21	Shri Jitendra Dudi	2016	Pune
22	Ms. Mittali Sethi	2017	Nandurbar
23	Shri Rahul Gupta	2017	Hingoli
24	Shri Manuj Jindal	2017	Ratnagiri
25	Shri Avishyant Panda	2017	Gadchiroli
26	Shri Prajit Prabhakaran Nair	2017	Gondia
27	Ms. Bhagyashree Dilip Vispute	2017	Dhule
28	Ms. Ashima Mittal	2018	Jalna
29	Shri Keerthi Kiran H Pujar	2018	Dharashiv
30	Shri Rohan Bapurao Ghuge	2018	Jalgaon
31	Shri Ashish Yerkear	2018	Amravati
32	Shri Vivek Johnson	2018	Beed
33	Shri Vikas Meena	2018	Yavatmal
34	Ms. Varsha Meena	2018	Akola
35	Ms. Trupti Ankush Dhodmise	2019	Sindhudurg

Municipal Commissioners

Maharashtra’s municipal corporations, from the giant BMC in Mumbai to Nagpur, Pune, Nashik and beyond, are run by IAS Municipal Commissioners.

Sr.	IAS Officer	Batch	Current Posting
1	Shri Bhushan A Gagrani	1990	Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (BMC)
2	Shri Saurabh Rao	2003	Municipal Commissioner, Thane Municipal Corporation, Thane
3	Dr. Vipin Sharma	2005	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Mumbai
4	Dr. (Ms.) Ashwini M Joshi	2005	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Mumbai
5	Shri Abhijit Sudhakar Bangar	2008	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Mumbai
6	Shri Naval Kishore Ram	2008	Municipal Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation, Pune
7	Shri G Sreekanth	2009	Municipal Commissioner, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Municipal Corporation, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar
8	Shri Manojkumar M. Suryawanshi	2010	Municipal Commissioner, Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation, Vasai
9	Shri Avinash K. Dhakane	2010	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai
10	Dr. Abhijeet V. Chaudhari	2011	Municipal Commissioner, Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Nagpur
11	Shri Aribam R. Sharma	2012	Municipal Commissioner, Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation, Bhayander
12	Ms. K. Manjulakshmi	2013	Municipal Commissioner, Kolhapur Municipal Corporation, Kolhapur
13	Shri Kailas B. Shinde	2013	Municipal Commissioner, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Navi Mumbai
14	Ms. Pavneet Kaur	2014	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation, Pune
15	Ms. Manisha Khatri	2014	Municipal Commissioner, Nashik Municipal Corporation, Nashik
16	Shri Prithviraj B P	2014	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation, Pune
17	Shri Sachin C Ombase	2015	Municipal Commissioner, Solapur Municipal Corporation, Solapur
18	Shri Abhinav Goel	2016	Municipal Commissioner, Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation, Kalyan
19	Ms. Vasumana Pant	2017	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Nagpur
20	Ms. Saumya Sharma	2018	Municipal Commissioner, Amravati Municipal Corporation, Amravati
21	Ms. Manisha Manikrao Awhale	2019	Municipal Commissioner, Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation, Ulhasnagar
22	Shri Anmol Sagar	2019	Municipal Commissioner, Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation, Bhiwandi
23	Ms. Vaishanavi B.	2019	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Nagpur
24	Ms. Karishma Nair	2021	Additional Municipal Commissioner, Nashik Municipal Corporation, Nashik
25	Shri Satyam Gandhi	2021	Municipal Commissioner, Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad City Municipal Corporation, Sangli
26	Ms. Mansi	2021	Municipal Commissioner, Latur Municipal Corporation, Latur
27	Shri Akunuri Naresh	2022	Municipal Commissioner, Chandrapur Municipal Corporation, Chandrapur

Zilla Parishad Chief Executive Officers

On the rural side, each district’s Zilla Parishad is run by a CEO of IAS rank, typically officers from the 2015–2022 batches, delivering rural development, health and education schemes on the ground.

Sr.	IAS Officer	Batch	Zilla Parishad
1	Shri G R Kharat	2013	Buldhana
2	Shri M W Salwe	2013	Bhandara
3	Shri Parag Suresh Soman	2014	Wardha
4	Shri Manoj Vijay Ranade	2014	Palghar
5	Shri Ravindra Jivajirao Khebudkar	2015	Sindhudurg
6	Ms. Vaidehi Manoj Ranade	2015	Ratnagiri
7	Shri Vivek Bansi Gaikwad	2015	Hingoli
8	Ms. Anita Nikhil Meshram	2015	Akola
9	Shri Gajanan Dhondiram Patil	2016	Pune
10	Shri Anand Subhashlal Bhandari	2017	Ahilyanagar
11	Shri Ankit	2019	Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar
12	Ms. Minal Karanwal	2019	Jalgaon
13	Dr. Maynak Ghosh	2019	Dharashiv
14	Shri Sawan Kumar	2019	Bhandara
15	Shri Aziz Karim Shaikh	2019	Dhule
16	Ms. Neha Bhosle	2020	Raigad
17	Ms. Sanjita Mohapatra	2020	Amravati
18	Shri Mandar Jayantrao Patki	2020	Yavatmal
19	Shri Karthikeyan S.	2020	Kolhapur
20	Shri Kuladeep Jangam	2020	Solapur
21	Shri Vishal Tejrao Narwade	2020	Sangli
22	Shri Muruganantham M	2020	Gondia
23	Shri Jithin Rahman	2020	Beed
24	Ms. Yashni Nagarajan	2020	Satara
25	Ms. Natisha Mathur	2020	Parbhani
26	Ms. Kavali Meghana	2021	Nanded
27	Shri Suhas Laxman Gade	2021	Gadchiroli
28	Shri Vinayak Prakashrao Mahamuni	2021	Nagpur
29	Shri Rahul Kumar Meena	2021	Latur
30	Shri Pulkit Singh	2021	Chandrapur
31	Ms. Minnu P M	2021	Jalna
32	Shri Arpit Chauhan	2022	Washim
33	Shri Naman Goyal	2022	Nandurbar
34	Shri Pawar Omkar Madhukar	2022	Nashik
35	Shri Yadav Ranjit Mohan	2022	Thane

Maharashtra Officers on Central Deputation

A number of cadre officers are serving away from the state in Union ministries in New Delhi or on assignments abroad while remaining on the Maharashtra roll.

Sr.	IAS Officer	Batch	Current Posting
1	Ms. Meeta R Lochan	1990	Secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes, M/o Social Justice & Empowerment (Central Deputation)
2	Shri Sanjeev Kumar	1993	Secretary, Department of Defence Production, M/o Defence, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
3	Shri Surendra Kumar Bagde	1993	Director General, National Centre for Good Governance, DARPG, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
4	Shri Rupinder Singh	1996	Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, M/o Home Affairs, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
5	Shri Rajeev Kumar Mital	1998	Director General, National Mission Clean Ganga, M/o Jal Shakti, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
6	Ms. Indra Mallo	1999	Additional Secretary, National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention, Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
7	Shri Niranjan Kr. Sudhansu	2000	Additional Secretary, M/o Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
8	Shri Piyush Singh	2000	Additional Secretary, M/o Power, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
9	Dr. (Ms.) Nidhi Pandey	2001	Joint Secretary, D/o Official Language, M/o Home Affairs, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
10	Ms. Prajakta L. Verma	2001	Joint Secretary, D/o Atomic Energy, Mumbai (Central Deputation)
11	Shri M. Sankaranarayanan	2003	Joint Secretary, D/o Atomic Energy, Mumbai (Central Deputation)
12	Dr. Nirupama J Dange	2007	Director, Census Operations cum Registrar General & Census Commissioner (branch), M/o Home Affairs, Mumbai (Central Deputation)
13	Shri Shelesh Nawal	2010	Deputy Director (Sr.), LBSNAA, Mussoorie (Central Deputation)
15	Shri Ashutosh Salil	2010	Adviser (Industry & Engineering), Embassy of India, Brussels (Central Deputation)
15	Ms. Suman Chandra	2010	Director, M/o New & Renewable Energy, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
16	Shri Uday G. Chaudhari	2010	Private Secretary to Minister, M/o Jal Shakti, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
17	Shri Rahul Dwivedi	2010	Director, M/o Jal Shakti, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
18	Shri P Siva Sankar	2011	Director, M/o Rural Development, New Delhi (Central Deputation)
19	Ms. Nidhi Choudhari	2012	Deputy Secretary, National Gallery of Modern Art, M/o Culture, Mumbai (Central Deputation)
20	Ms. Nima Arora	2014	Assistant Director General, M/o Electronics and Information Technology, Bengaluru (Central Deputation)

Notable IAS officers of the Maharashtra cadre

Beyond the org chart, a handful of Maharashtra officers are known well beyond the Secretariat for pandemic management, mega-projects, or a refusal to bend the rules. Here are six, including the cadre’s most-transferred and most-discussed officer.

Tukaram Mundhe 

Perhaps the most talked-about officer in the cadre. He entered the service with an All-India Rank of 20 and has since been transferred roughly 25 times in about 21 years, a record earned by an uncompromising, rule-first style that admirers have nicknamed “Singham.”

He has been Collector of Solapur and Municipal Commissioner of Nashik, Nagpur and Navi Mumbai. Since May 2026, he has led the state’s Food and Drug Administration, where a sweeping crackdown on food adulteration and unsafe products has once again put him in the headlines.

Rajesh Aggarwal

The senior-most officer of the Maharashtra cadre and, since December 2025, the state’s Chief Secretary, the top post in the administration. An IIT Delhi engineer, he spent his most recent central stint as Secretary of the Union Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and, before that, Skill Development. He is closely associated with technology-led governance and direct-benefit-transfer reforms.

Iqbal Singh Chahal 

Best known for running Mumbai’s pandemic response as Municipal Commissioner of the BMC, where the decentralised “Mumbai Model” of ward war-rooms and oxygen management drew national and international praise. He now serves as Additional Chief Secretary (Home).

Ashwini Bhide

A career shaped by big-ticket infrastructure. As Managing Director of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation, she drove the underground Metro Line-3 through some of the city’s toughest terrain and politics. She currently serves as Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister.

Conclusion: Maharashtra’s Cadre Consists of 358 IAS Officers, Spanning Four Decades of Batches

Maharashtra’s IAS cadre runs from a 1989-batch Chief Secretary down to trainees of 2025. Mumbai holds the largest concentration of officers through the Secretariat and the city’s corporations and authorities; every district has a Collector and a Zilla Parishad CEO; and a steady stream serves the Union government on deputation.

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