New Delhi (08.12.2025): Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has released the cadre allocation list for candidates who secured the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) through the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2024. Topper of 2024 Shakti Dubey has been allotted home cadre Uttar Pradesh and Rank 2 holder Harshita Goyal from Haryana has been assigned Gujarat cadre.

Komal Punia got Uttarakhand while Mayank Tripathi UP cadre. Apart from this, Aditya Vikram Aggarwal got Haryana, Hemant got Bihar, Sanskriti Trivedi, Riya Saini got Maharashtra while Shivansh Subhash Jagade got UP cadre.

Shivam Singh, Siddharth Singh, Sweta, Sandeep Kumar, Ram Bharose Saran of Uttar Pradesh also got home cadre while Sanoli Gautam of Uttarakhand, Rekha Siyak of Rajasthan, Ayush Jaiswal, Apoorva Singh, Ayush Saini, Mukul Khandelwal and Thangaiyarasan T of Tamil Nadu, belonging to outside states, have been allotted UP cadre.

The list outlines the cadres assigned to the top performers based on the established UPSC allocation policy, which considers factors such as merit, candidate preference, category, availability of vacancies, insider–outsider ratio, and home-state status.

The UPSC announced the Civil Services Exam final results on April 22, 2024. Considered among the country's most challenging exams, the CSE attracts participation from lakhs of students each year. Successful candidates are recommended to various central services, including the IAS, Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Revenue Service, and Indian Trade Service.

A total of 1,009 candidates have been recommended by the UPSC for various services in the 2024 cycle. Of these, 725 are men and 284 are women, based on the figures released by the Ministry. These numbers reflect ongoing efforts to encourage broad participation from across the country.

The cadre allocation process follows specific guidelines laid out by the Ministry, considering candidates' preferences, rank, and insider/outsider status. For example, while Shakti Dubey and Shah Margi Chirag remain in their home states, others like Harshita Goyal and Dongre Archit Parag are assigned to states different from their own. This process aims to promote fair distribution of officers across regions.