India, Jan. 5 -- In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, several IAS and IPS officers have been transferred out of Delhi, including Municipal Corporation of Delhi commissioner Ashwani Kumar (1992 batch) and Delhi chief electoral officer R. Alice Vaz (2005 batch), both of whom will move to Jammu and Kashmir, according to an order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Sunday. Senior IAS officer Sanjeev Khirwar (1994 batch) will return to the national capital from Ladakh.

The MHA order, dated January 4 and issued by undersecretary to the government of India Rakesh Kumar Singh, states that with the approval of the competent authority, the transfers of 31 IAS officers and 18 IPS officers of the AGMUT cadre have been ordered with immediat...