The Centre has provisionally allocated IAS and IPS officers to newly-formed State of Telangana and residuary Andhra Pradesh and allowed them with a limited-time option of swapping their cadres. A total of 166 IAS and 119 IPS officers have been allocated Andhra Pradesh cadre whereas 128 IAS and 92 IPS officers have been given Telangana cadre, said an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training. About 71 Indian Forest Service officers have been allocated to Andhra Pradesh and 56 to Telangana, it said. The swapping of officers belonging to IAS, IPS and IFoS would be allowed primarily on the ground of marriage in which the spouse had not been given the same cadre as his or her partner.