List of high commissioners of India to Bangladesh

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High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh
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Incumbent
Pranay Kumar Verma, IFS
since 30 July 2022
Residence Baridhara, Dhaka
Nominator Droupadi Murmu
Formation1968
Website Embassy of India, Dhaka
High Commissioner of India, Dhaka

The high commissioner of India to the People's Republic of Bangladesh is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Bangladesh. The high commission is located in the Diplomatic enclave of Baridhara, Dhaka.

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The high commission is headed by the High commissioner, while four other Assistant High Commissions of India are located in four major cities of the country, which are headed by an Assistant High Commissioner.

List of Indian high commissioners to Bangladesh

The following IFS officers have served as High Commissioners of India to Bangladesh. [1]

NameTook officeLeft officeNotes
Subimal Dutt February 1972June 19743rd Foreign Secretary of India
Samar Sen July 1974November 1976
K. P. S. Menon Jr. January 1977September 1979
Muchkund Dubey October 1979October 1982
I. P. Khosla November 1982August 1985
Indrajit Singh Chadha October 1985February 1989
Krishnan Srinivasan February 1989March 1992former Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General of Political Affair
19th Foreign Secretary of India
K. Raghunath April 1992March 1995
Deb Mukherjee April 1995July 2000
M. L. Tripathi July 2000October 2003
Veena Sikri December 2003November 2006
P. R. Chakraborty January 2007December 2009
Rajeet Mitter December 2009October 2011
Pankaj Saran March 2012December 2015current Deputy National Security Adviser (since 2018)
Harsh Vardhan Shringla January 2016January 2019Former Ambassador of India to the United States
33rd Foreign Secretary of India [2]
Riva Ganguly Das 1 March 201912 August 2020
Vikram Doraiswami 12 August 202020 September 2022Currently High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (September 2022 – Present) [3]
Pranay Kumar Verma 21 September 2022Incumbent [4]

Assistant High Commissioners

Alongside that there are 4 Assistant High Commissioners, appointed in four cities: Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, and Sylhet. [5]

CityCurrent Assistant High CommissionerLocationWebsite
Chittagong Dr. Rajeev Ranjan2111, Zakir Hossain Road, Khulshi AHCI Chittagong
Rajshahi Manoj KumarHouse no. 284/2, Housing Estate, Sapura AHCI Rajshahi
Khulna Inder Jit SagarHouse no. 65, Shamshur Rahman Road, Khulna AHCI Khulna
Sylhet Chander ShekharHouse no. 40, Road no. 2, Block-E, Shah Jalal Upa Sahar AHCI Sylhet

See also

References

  1. "পূর্ববর্তী হাই কমিশনারবৃন্দ (Former High Commissioners)". Embassy of India, Dhaka.
  2. "Harsh Vardhan Shringla appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the US". Ministry of External Affairs. 20 December 2018.
  3. "Diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami appointed India's next envoy to Bangladesh". Hindustan Times. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  4. "Shri Pranay Kumar Verma appointed as new Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka". The Business Standard. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  5. "সহকারী হাই কমিশনসমূহ (Assistant High Commissioners)". Embassy of India, Bangladesh.