18 IAS Officers Posted as Joint Magistrates Across Uttar Pradesh

Eighteen IAS officers, currently posted as Assistant Magistrates in Uttar Pradesh, have been appointed Joint Magistrates in districts across the state, according to an order issued this week. Aditya Shrivastava has been posted to Shahjahanpur, Ms Nausheen to Basti and Shaurya Arora to Badaun.

The Joint Magistrate is the entry-level executive posting for IAS probationers in UP after their district training, placing them under the Collector to handle revenue, land records, and law-and-order coordination for a subdivision. It is the first posting where an officer holds independent charge over a defined territorial unit rather than working purely under supervision.

The batch reflects UP's practice of rotating freshly trained officers through revenue divisions before longer-term postings. Kunal Rastogi moves to Gorakhpur, Ayan Jain to Azamgarh, Shivam Kumar to Mahrajganj, Animesh Verma to Deoria, Anshul Hindal to Sultanpur, Shubhanshu Katiyar to Jaunpur, Vinod Kumar Meena to Oraiyya and Arpit Kumar to Prayagraj — largely eastern and central UP districts with sizeable rural populations and active land-dispute caseloads.

As Assistant Magistrates, the officers spent their probation period shadowing district and sub-divisional magistrates, sitting in on revenue court proceedings and law-and-order review meetings before qualifying for independent charge.

The remaining postings — Ms Ridam Anand to Kanpur Dehat, Ramesh Chandra Verma to Balia, G Akshay Deepak to Kushinagar, Tejas K to Manpuri, Mrs Manisha Dharve to Jhansi, Ayush Agrawal to Raibareilly and Mrs Aparajita Aryan to Lucknow — complete a state-wide reshuffle that touches all four administrative divisions of UP.

Joint Magistrates in UP report directly to their District Magistrates and are typically evaluated on revenue case disposal rates and responsiveness during law-and-order incidents, the two benchmarks that shape early empanelment prospects in the state cadre.

The order was issued this week and takes effect with immediate effect across all 18 postings.