List of 33 IAS officers of 1981 batch empanelled as Union secretaries

1981 batch IAS officers have been empanelled as secretary or secretary equivalent to Government of India. Once the senior-most is formally appointed as secretary, all others will immediately get the rank and pay of a special secretary. Here are 33 IAS officers of 1981 batch who got empanelled.
1. Anuj Kumar Bishnoi (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: May 2017)
2. Anil Swarup (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: June 2018)
3. SM Vijayanand (Kerala cadre IAS; Retirement: March 2017)
4. Anjuly Chib Duggal (Punjab cadre IAS; Retirement: August 2017)
5. Rajive Kumar (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: June 2018) 
6. Sunil Soni (Maharashtra cadre IAS; Retirement: April 2016)
7. Madhusudan Prasad (Haryana cadre IAS; Retirement: March 2016)
8. Bhanu Pratap Sharma (Bihar cadre IAS; Retirement: June 2017)
9. Gurjot Kaur (Rajasthan cadre IAS; Retirement: January 2019)
10. Balvender Kumar (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: February 2017)
11. Vrinda Sarup (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: December 2016)
12.  Arun Jha (Bihar cadre IAS; Retirement: August 2018)
13. Vijay Shankar Madan (UT cadre IAS; Retirement: August 2016)
14. Subhas Chandra Khuatia (Karnataka cadre IAS; Retirement: November 2017)
15. Chirravuri Viswanath (Andhra cadre IAS; Retirement: September 2017)
16. Pradeep Kumar Pujari (Gujarat cadre IAS; Retirement: June 2017)
17. Ashok Kumar Gupta (Tamil Nadu cadre IAS; Retirement: October 2017)
18. Rita A Teotia (Gujarat cadre IAS; Retirement: July 2018)
19. Anil Kumar Agarwal (West Bengal cadre IAS; Retirement: September 2016)
20.  Anuradha Gupta (Haryana cadre IAS; Retirement: December 2018)
21. Hasmukh Adhia (Gujarat cadre IAS; Retirement: November 2018)
22. Anoop Kumar Srivastava (Assam cadre IAS; Retirement: August 2018)
23. Shashi Shekhar (Tamil Nadu cadre IAS; Retirement: December 2016)
24. Rajiv Nayan Choubey (Tamil Nadu cadre IAS; Retirement: January 2019)
25. Devendra Chaudhary (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: May 2018) 
26. Ameising Luikham (Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS; Retirement: December 2018)

Secretary Equivalent
1. Chandra Bhushan Paliwal (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: November 2014)
2. Jayant Dasgupta (Bihar cadre IAS; Retirement: September 2014)
3. Anand Misra (UP cadre IAS; Retirement: September 2015)
4. Ravinder Kumar Jain (Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS; Retirement: Nov 2015)
5. Suresh Chandra Panda (Assam cadre IAS; Retirement: February 2015)
6. Tuk Tuk Kumar (West Bengal cadre IAS; Retirement: August 2015)
7. D Jagatheesa Pandiyan (Gujarat cadre IAS; Retirement: May 2015)