Tripura's IAS Exodus

It's hard not to see the flight of over a dozen IAS officers from Tripura's cadre as a crypto-threshold moment. Between 2019 and 2023, young administrative talent from IAS batches of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and even 2023 have been migrating, often in tandem with life changes such as marriage, to other states, including Rajasthan, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Haryana.

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While cadre transfers for marriage aren't a scandal, what happens when they turn into a slow haemorrhage? Tripura’s government is increasingly borrowing TCS (Tripura Civil Service) officers to fill gaps, piling extra roles such as acting SDM onto younger, local babus juggling too much, while swallowing senior-level responsibilities.