The 1981 batch IAS officers have been shortlisted for the post of Secretary in the Government of India. The names of the shortlisted officers are:
- UT cadre:
V S Madan
- Andhra Pradesh cadre:
C Viswanath
- Assam- Meghalaya cadre:
S C Panda
Rajiv Yadav
Anoop Kumar Srivastava
- Bihar cadre:
B P Sharma
Anjani Kumar Singh
S K Negi
Arun Jha
- Gujarat cadre:
P K Pujari
Ms Rita Teaotia
- Haryana cadre:
Madhu Sudan Prasad
Anuradha Gupta
- Himachal Pradesh cadre:
R K Jain
- Uttar Pradesh cadre:
A K Bishnoi
Anil Swarup
Rajive Kumar
Vrinda Swarup
Devendra Chaudhary
- UD cadre:
N N Prasad
Amrendra Sinha
- West Bengal cadre:
N R Banerjee
Dr Tuk Tuk Kumar
A K Agrawal Odisha cadre:
R L Jamuda
- Punjab cadre:
Anjuly Chib Duggal
- Rajasthan cadre:
Rakesh Verma
Rakesh Srivastava
Gurjot Kaur
- Tamil Nadu cadre:
R Kannan
V Ganesan
A K Gupta
R N Chaubey
- Jharkhand cadre:
Sudhir Prasad
- Karnataka cadre:
S C Khuntia
Ms K Ratnaprabha
- Kerala cadre:
S M Vijyanand
- Maharashtra cadre:
Sunil Soni
- Manipur-Tripura cadre:
Ameising Luikham
