The officers India moves most often, and those moved after crossing someone powerful. Each career is drawn as one ribbon: solid where the record is documented, thin where a single report carries it, frayed where nothing is on file.
71transfers in 34 years. 6 of them have a public record of why.
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Documented
One report
Moves counted, reason not on record
The register
Ranked by career transfers, as reported or derived from service records. 36 officers have a published count; 28 more are here for one transfer that drew attention.
Sources disagree on counts, so each officer's page lists them. A dash means no career count has been published.How we count.
Revolving door
Officials who joined companies after leaving government. The grey thread is the interval, drawn to scale; the notch is one year, the usual cooling-off period. 13 of 40 crossed it in less.
The other end of the register: officers who reached the top unusually fast, or with unusual handling. Extensions past the rules, appointments days before retirement, laws changed to allow them.
