New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): Amit Kumar, an IFS officer of the 1995 batch, has been appointed as the following Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea, the Ministry of External Affairs knowledgeable.
He is presently the Consul General of India in Chicago, “Amit Kumar (IFS: 1995), presently Consul General, Consulate General of India, Chicago, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea,” learn the MEA assertion.
He is predicted to take up his project shortly.
Earlier, the place was held by Sripriya Ranganathan, an Indian Foreign Services (IFS) officer of the 1994 batch. Before becoming a member of the Foreign Services, Ranganathan obtained her grasp’s Degree in History, with a specialisation in Modern Indian History, from Delhi University.
She served in Myanmar because the second in command on the Embassy of India, Yangon. Her different abroad postings have been in Ankara and Hong Kong.
During her a number of years of expertise in headquarters, she has served in numerous capacities within the Ministry of External Affairs in addition to within the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. She served as Joint Secretary (Director General) answerable for relations with Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Ranganathan has additionally headed the Ministry’s SAARC Division and Policy Planning Divisions. Earlier, she served as Director within the Disarmament and International Security Affairs Divisions and as Under Secretary within the Administration and Europe West Divisions. In the course of her secondment to the Department of Commerce, she served within the Export Promotion (Agricultural Products) and the Trade Policy Divisions.
India-Republic of Korea (RoK) relations have made nice strides in recent times and have turn out to be really multidimensional, spurred by a major convergence of pursuits, mutual goodwill, and high-level exchanges.
According to the info from Korea and the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), Korea and India have a robust financial partnership that’s quickly increasing.
“Bilateral trade between the two countries reached USD 23.7 billion in 2021, surpassing USD 21.5 billion in 2018. This was the highest-ever trade volume between the two countries, representing a 40 per cent increase over the previous year and a total of USD 16.9 billion,” as per KOTRA, the industrial part of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea.
PM Narendra Modi paid a state go to to South Korea from February 21-22, 2019 on the invitation of then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in, throughout which each side held wide-ranging discussions on defence, financial, cultural, and scientific cooperation.
Both the leaders unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi on the prestigious Yonsei University of Seoul. PM Modi additionally gifted a Bodhi sapling to Gimhae City and obtained the Seoul Peace Prize.
Six MOUs have been signed on start-ups, joint problems with a postal stamp, combating trans-border and worldwide crime, commerce facilitation, roadways, and media.
PM Modi and President Moon met once more on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan on 28 June 2019, and exchanged opinions on numerous fields together with financial and protection trade cooperation in addition to people-to-people exchanges. (ANI)