Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has approved promotions for 26 IAS officers across multiple batches, with the elevations taking effect from January 1, 2026.
According to notifications issued by the General Administration department, six 2010-batch IAS officers have been promoted to the Super Time Scale (Level-14 of the Pay Matrix). They are Sudhansu Mohan Samal, Rashmita Panda, Brundha D, Md Sadique Alam, Mansi Nimbhal and Prem Chandra Chaudhary.
Upon promotion, they have been designated as Special Secretaries and will continue in their current postings on an in-situ basis until further orders.
Similarly,
eleven officers from the 2013 batch — Madhusmita Sahoo, Shubham Saxena, Monisha Banerjee, Vijay Amruta Kulange, Kalyan Kumar Rath, Subhashree Nanda, Bijay Kumar Prusty, Kaliprasanna Mahapatra, Raghuram R Iyer, Satyabrata Rout, and Dipak Ranjan Das — have been elevated to the Selection Grade (Pay Level-13). These officers will also continue in their existing assignments pending new postings.
Additional, 2013-batch officer Gavali Parag Harshad, currently on Central deputation, has received a proforma promotion to the same selection grade.
Four officers from the 2017 batch — Somesh Kumar Upadhyay, P Anvesha Reddy, Ashish Ishwar Patil, and Hema Kanta Say — have elevated to the Junior Administrative Grade (Non-Functional, Pay Level-12). They too will continue in situ, the notification said.
Similarly, 2022-batch IAS officers Akavaram Sasya Reddy, Akshay Pillay, Arugula Sneha, Samir Kumar Jena and Soumyaranjan Pradhan have been promoted to the Senior Time Scale (Level-11 of the Pay Matrix), it added.