patna altogether 22 ias officers of bihar cadre are retiring this year five of them are retiring on january 31 while another 11 will superannuate by july 31 the rest five are scheduled to retire till december 31four of the retiring officers are in the rank of chief secretary five in the rank of special secretary while the rest 13 in the rank of joint secretaryprominent officers who are scheduled to retire in 2023 are rajesh bhushan 1987batch currently posted as secretary union ministry of health and family welfare dharmendra singh gangwar 1988batch currently posted as secretary border management department under the union ministry of home affairs vandana kini 1989 currently posted as chief advisor bihar state planning board and hukum singh meena 1992 currently posted as additional secretary land resources department government of indiawhile bhushan is scheduled to retire on july 31 gangwar and kini will superannuate on june 30 and meena on may 31currently altogether 241 ias officers are available in bihar cadre against the sanctioned strength of 359 thus the state is facing a shortage of 118 ias officers against its sanctioned strength the scheduled retirement of 22 officers will deepen the shortage of ias officers in the stateamong the 241 available officers 30 are on the central deputation while another one jitendra gupta 2013batch is on the interstate deputation in nagaland government for a period of three yearsthough the state got altogether 26 ias officers through promotion from the bihar administrative service in august 2022 13 of them 50 are retiring in 2023 as per the records of the general administration department gad all these 13 ias officers are in the rank of joint secretarythree of the 13 officers rajesh choudhary sarv narayan yadav and kapileshwar mandal of 2010batch are scheduled to retire on january 31 a gad official who did not want to be identified said on sunday the other 10 joint secretaryrank officers who are retiring this year are s m kaiser sultan december 31 suman kumar may 31 ram shankar sept 30 vinay kumar may 31 pravin kumar gupta july 31 ramesh kumar jha april 30 gajendra kumar mishra oct 31 yashaspati mishra march 31 virendra prasad july 31 and nawal kishore dec 31the five special secretaryrank officer who are retiring this year are vijay kumar feb 28 satish kuamr sharma and ram ishwar january 31 sanjay kumar upadhyay dec 31 and om prakash yadav aug 31 the gad official said