The exercise to this effect has been completed by the Jammu and Kashmir Government and the Union Home Ministry will now shortly take a call to this effect. Posts at almost all levels have been increased to take the strength to 165. Increase in sanctioned strength of IAS was necessitated as Jammu and Kashmir was facing shortage of officers at various levels prompting the Union Home Ministry and Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to deploy many officers from other States and UT to J&K on deputation basis to meet the shortage.

Sanctioned strength at the level of Financial Commissioners, Principal Secretaries, Commissioner/ Secretaries, Secretaries etc will go up once the proposal to raise the strength is cleared. Besides officers from AGMUT cadre, of which Jammu and Kashmir is now part, a number of IAS, IPS and other AIS officers from different States/UTs are presently on deputation not only to Jammu and Kashmir but also to Ladakh.