The Government of India has promoted many India Administrative Service (IAS) officers of batch 1981 to the post of Secretary or equivalent to Secretary. The names of the officers are:
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of UP cadre, Anuj Kumar Bishnoi
- The 1980 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre, Vinod Agarwal.
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Anil Swarup
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, S M Vijayanand.
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre, Anjuly Chib Duggal
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Rajive Kumar.
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre, Sunil Soni.
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, Madhusudan Prasad.
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, Bhanu Pratap
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, Gurjot Kaur
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Balvendra Kumar
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Vrinda Sarup
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, Arun Jha
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of UT cadre, Vijay Shankar Madan
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, Subhash Chandra Khuntia
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Chirravuri Vishwanath
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, Pradeep Kumar
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Ashok Kumar Gupta
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, Rita A Teaotia
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, Anil Kumar Agarwal
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, Anurada Gupta
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, Hasmukh Adhia
- The1981 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Anoop Kumar Srivastava
- The1981 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Shashi Shekhar
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Rajiv Nayan Choubey
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Devendra Chaudhary
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre, Ameising Luikham
- The 1980 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, Ms Swarnmala Rawla
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Chandra Bhushan
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, Jayant Dasgupta
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Anand Misra
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, Jayant Dasgupta
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, Ravinder Kumar
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, Ms Tuk Tuk Kumar
- The 1981 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, D Jagatheesa Pandiyan
