Q/PB (SEB)/5602/01/2024

Ministry of External Affairs

(Senior Establishment Board)

New Delhi, 05th January 2024

Approved Minutes of the 1st Meeting of 2024 of the Senior Establishment

Board held on 04 January 2024 are enclosed.

2. The Board has tried to accommodate requirements of all Missions/Posts,

however, due to paucity of eligible applicants, some vacancies could not be covered .
Missions/Posts are, however, requested to relieve the Officials on their respective
dates of completion of tenure. Extension, if required, may be obtained by providing
detailed justification to respective Personnel Section in the Ministry well before
completion of tenure. No representation for review of posting will be entertained.

3. Cypher-Knowing Section Officers who have been posted abroad will be

required to perform Cipher duties as and when needed in the Missions/Posts.

4. Accommodation Clearance: Missions/Posts concerned are requested to

convey the accommodation clearance in respect of the official(s) posted to their
Mission/Post within one month from the date of issue of these Minutes. In case the
official is posted directly from a Mission/Post, his/her accommodation clearance
may be communicated to the Mission/Post concerned under intimation to the
Ministry. If accommodation clearance is not communicated within a month of
the issue of the Minutes, the clearance would be presumed to have been
granted. No subsequent accommodation clearance will be sought. Lack of
accommodation clearance would, in any case, not be a cause for any delay in the
incumbent being relieved as per dates indicated by the Ministry.

5. Home leave-cum-transfer: Officials under orders of transfer from one

Mission/Post to another Mission/Post or Headquarters and desirous of taking home
leave-cum-transfer, Earned Leave, Ex-India Leave etc. may apply to the concerned
Personnel Section of the Ministry in prescribed pro-forma and obtain approval prior
to being relieved from the Mission/Post. Such requests, after recommendation of
HoM/HoP, should be faxed/e-mailed to the Ministry at least three weeks in advance.
Request for ex-post facto approval of such leave will not be considered and availing
leave without prior approval of the Ministry will be treated as unauthorized absence
from duty.
Sd/-
(Yatin Patel)
Director (ADP)

1. All Officers/Sections at Headquarters

2. All Missions/Posts abroad

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 Section Officers’ Cadre

S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the

(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
1. Abidjan (C*) Ram Prasad Meena Shahabuddin Khan
28-Jan-24
Transferred to HQ HQ

2. Beijing (B) Vacant Jitendra Kumar Sharma

Immediate
HQ
3. Belgrade (B) Rajesh Kumar Pippal, now Amit
08-Jan-24 US
HQ
To be decided by FSB

4. Berlin (A) Shashi Ranjan Kr. Gupta Pawan Saharan

Immediate
Stands Transferred to HQ HQ

5. Brasilia (B) Ms. Ringrin Zimik Manoj Kumar

25-Mar-24
Transferred to Paris
Kathmandu (C)

6. Brisbane (A*) New Post Sanjit Das

Immediate
Guangzhou (B)
7. Brussels (A) Sandeep Kumar, now SO Srawan Kumar
23-Feb-24
Transferred to HQ Djibouti (C*) 2 Yrs

8. Budapest (A) Radhe Lal Rahul Kalkhanda

19-Feb-24
Transferred to Djibouti
9. Cairo (C) Hem Narayan Singh Mohammed Omer Farooq
Immediate Khan
Stands Transferred to Male
Jeddah (C)

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
10. Chicago (A*) Sanjay Kumar Sharma Sudhir Kumar
05-Apr-24
Transferred to HQ Tashkent (C )
11. Colombo (C*) Arun Garg Hukum Singh
Immediate
Stands transferred to HQ HQ
12. Dar-es-Salaam (C) Mudrika Prasad Jyoti Ranjan Sen
05-Feb-24
Transferred to HQ Zagreb (B)

13. Djibouti (C*) 2 yrs Srawan Kumar Radhe Lal

23-Jan-24
Transferred to Brussels
Budapest (A)
14. Doha (B) Sarup Singh Chandan Kumar
08-Apr-24 Shrivastva
Transferred to HQ
15. Dubai (A) Ishwar Dass Extension till
01-Nov-24 Superannuation on 31st
October 2024.
16. Freetown (C*) Deepak Kumar Kashyap Kamal Kishore
01-Feb-24
Transferred to HQ HQ
17. Guangzhou (B) Sanjit Das Avinash Kumar
22-Mar-24
Transferred to Brisbane Male (C)
18. Jeddah (C) Mohammed Omer Farooq Sanjeeva Kumar Thakur
07-Feb-24 Khan
HQ
Transferred to Cairo
19. Lusaka (C*) Anil Kumar Halder Sunil Kumar
01-Feb-24 (DOB: 05-04-1989)
Transferred to HQ on
Superannuation HQ
20. Male (C) Avinash Kumar Alok Kumar
11-Apr-24
HQ
Transferred to Guangzhou

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
21. Marseille (A) New Post Suresh Chandra
Immediate Srivastava

HQ
Posting of Shri Dinesh Singh, SO to Marseille cancelled and transferred back to
HQ.
22. Moscow (C) Deo Bansh Roy Bachchan Sunil Kumar
Immediate
Stands Transferred to Malta (B)
Jeddah
23. Nicosia (B) V.R. Ashok, now US Manish Bajaj
Immediate
Stands transferred to HQ Yangon (B)

24. Paris (A) Ms. L. Jacqueline Toppo, Ms. Ringrin Zimik

12-Apr-24 now US
Brasilia (B)
To be decided by FSB

25. Port Moresby (C*) 2 Vacant Manoj Kumar Tanwar

Yrs
Immediate Monotosh Sajjan HQ
Joined HQ
26. Riyadh (C) Sunil Kumar, now US Ramesh Kumar Jha
17-Jan-24
To be decided by FSB HQ

27. Seattle (A*) New Post Fakharuddin Ali Ahmad

Immediate
HQ
28. Tashkent (C) Sudhir Kumar Kirti Singh Rawat
18-Jan-24
Transferred to Chicago HQ
29. Ulaan Baatar (C*) Joydip Mondal Sunil Kumar
01-May-24 (DOB: 04-04-1970)
Transferred to HQ on
Superannuation
HQ

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 S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
30. Victoria (C) Sivaraman V, now US Sailesh Kumar Nayak
Immediate
Stands transferred by FSB HQ
31. Washington (A*) Rajesh Kumar Rajesh Khanna
Immediate (DOB: 31-Dec-80)

Stands transferred to HQ HQ
32. Zagreb (B) Jyoti Ranjan Sen Sunil Kadyan
12-Jan-24
Transferred to Dar-es-
Salaam HQ

2. The following Section Officers are transferred to HQ on superannuation:

S.No Name of the officer Station

1 Chander Mohan Singh Gaborone
2 Vijay Singh Jaffna
3 Som Bahadur Windhoek

3. The following Section Officer is transferred to HQ on completion of his tenure:

S.No Name of the officer Station

1 Gaurav Kumar Singh Abu Dhabi

4. The following Section Officers, who were promoted while serving abroad (as
ASO/ASO (Cypher)) or SO (CK) posted against ASO vacancies are transferred to
Headquarters on completion of their respective tenures:

S. No. Name of the officer Station

1. Bharat Daim Ankara

2. Ms. Versha Bansal Athens
3. Gunjan Kumar Agrawal Beijing
4. Gagan Gautam Gaborone
5. Syed Mohseen Ahmed Geneva PMI
6. Amit Singh Georgetown
7. Harsh Sharma Jakarta

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 S. No. Name of the officer Station

8. Yuvraj Singh Hooda Madrid

9. Gaurav Arora Male
10. S Thong Za Chin Ouagadougou
11. Rahul Kumar Santiago
12. Amir Hasan Quraishi St. Petersburg

Stenographers’ Cadre

S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the

(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
1. Abu Dhabi (A) Ramesh Kumar Vij, PPS Extension till
01-Jul-24 Superannuation on 30th
June 2024.
2. Abuja (C*) Rahul Krishna Soni, PA Sathiyamurthy
Commerce Post Nateshan, PSO
25-Jan-24
Transferred to Berne Brussels (A)
3. Addis Ababa (C ) Arun Kumar Verma, PA Ramani Balu, PPS
22-Feb-24
Transferred to HQ
HQ
4. Algiers (C*) Anil Kumar, PA Abhishek Bhardwaj, PA
01-Feb-24
Transferred to Tokyo HQ

5. Asuncion (C) New Post Ms. Harshda Mangal, PA

Immediate
London (A)
6. Baghdad (C*) NF 18 M Om Prakash Rawat, PPS Bharat Lal Meena, Steno
20-Jan-24
Transferred to HQ HQ

7. Beijing (B) Ms. Gloria Dung Dung, Narender Pal Singh, PPS
PPS
Immediate
Stands transferred to Kuala Lumpur (B)
Moscow

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
8. Beijing (B) Bhupender Singh Kajla, Ms. C.P. Lakshmi, PPS
23-Mar-24 PPS

Transferred to Santiago Malta (B)

9. Beirut (C*) Hemant Gautam, PPS Abhay Kumar Toppo,
03-Feb-24 PPS
Transferred to Geneva PMI
HQ
10. Berne (A) Satish Chander Thapliyal, Rahul Krishna Soni, PA
Immediate now SO

Stands transferred to HQ Abuja (C*)

11. Berne (A) Rakesh Sharma, PPS Moh Akram, PA

Commerce Post
01-Feb-24 Transferred to HQ on
Superannuation Riyadh (C)
12. Birmingham (A) Naresh Singh Rana, PS Akshay Kumar Meena,
01-Apr-24 Steno
Stands transferred to HQ
on Superannuation Port Moresby (C*) 2 Yrs

13. Bratislava (A) Rajiv Kohli, PPS Manoj Prajapati, Steno

01-May-24
Transferred to HQ on
Superannuation Sittwe (C*) NF 2 Yrs
14. Brisbane (A*) New Post Ms. Elaine Brijit Tigga,
Immediate PS

HQ
Posting of Sh. Saurav Roy, PS to Brisbane cancelled.

15. Brussels (A) Vacant R. Ramesh, PPS

Immediate
Sh. Sandeep Kumar HQ
(formerly PS) adjusted as
SO within Mission

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
16. Brussels (A) Sathiyamurthy Nateshan, Venkateswaran
04-Feb-24 PSO Narayanan, PSO

Transferred to Abuja HQ
17. Bucharest (B) Jagmohan Tiwari, PS Mahesh Chand, PPS
16-Apr-24
Transferred to Tokyo
Muscat (B)
18. Canberra (A*) Harjeet Singh Sethi, PPS Rajeev Goswami, SPPS
22-Feb-24
Transferred to Kuala
Tashkent (C)
Lumpur
19. Colombo (C*) Himanshu Pant, PA Gurvinder Singh
19-Feb-24 Marwah, PPS
Transferred to Geneva
WTO Toronto (A*)

20. Copenhagen (A) Vacant Ms. Anu Vats, PA

Immediate
Nishith Sharma, PA Dhaka (C*)
joined HQ
21. Dhaka (C*) Ram Mohan Meena, PA Sunil Kumar, PA
Immediate
Transferred to Paris Johannesburg (B)

22. Dhaka (C*) Ms. Anu Vats, PA Ms. Sneh Batra, PS

11-Apr-24
Transferred to Copenhagen Sofia (B)
23. Dublin (A) Mukhtiar Chand Bhagat, Rupesh Kumar, PPS
01-Feb-24 PPS

Transferred to HQ on Mexico city (B)

Superannuation
24. Edinburgh (A) Amit Kumar, PA Ms. Angika Kumari, PA
06-Apr-24
Transferred to HQ
Jeddah (C)
25. Geneva WTO (A*) Ms. Asha Tewari, now SO Himanshu Pant, PA
Commerce Post
Immediate Stands transferred to HQ Colombo (C*)

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
26. Geneva PMI (A*) Umesh Chander, SPPS Hemant Gautam, PPS
01-Apr-24
Transferred to HQ
Beirut (C*)
27. Harare (C*) Aman Sharma, PA Ravi Kumar Dasari, PS
Immediate
Stands Transferred to HQ
Vienna

28. Houston (A*) Ms. Subbalakshmi Mohan, Ms. Anju Malik, PPS
Immediate PPS
HQ
Transferred to Mexico City

29. Islamabad (C*) 2 Yrs Vinod Kumar, PPS Vikas Balodhi, PS

Immediate
Stands transferred to HQ HQ

Posting of Shri James Peter Bara, PA to Islamabad cancelled.

30. Jeddah (C) Ms. Angika Kumari, PA Kalu Ram Meena, PA
22-Apr-24
Transferred to Edinburgh Suva (B)

31. Johannesburg (B) Sunil Kumar, PA Anil R. Buradkar, PPS

Commerce Post
Transferred to Dhaka
15-Jan-24 HQ

32. Kampala (C*) Jitendra Chauhan, now Anantha S. R. Iyer, PPS

Immediate SO

Stands transferred to HQ Kuwait (B)

33. Kampala (C*) Dileep Kumar T., PS Upendra Singh Negi, PPS
08-Mar-24
Transferred to HQ Toronto (A*)

34. Kuala Lumpur (B) Rajesh Krishnan, PS Harjeet Singh Sethi, PPS

Immediate Stands transferred to HQ Canberra (A*)

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
35. Kuala Lumpur (B) Narender Pal Singh, PPS Vikash Kumar, PA
23-Feb-24
Transferred to Beijing HQ
Posting of Ms. Vaishaly Bagga, PS to Kuala Lumpur Cancelled.

36. Kuwait (B) Anantha S. R. Iyer, PPS Davinder Punj, PPS

07-Mar-24
Transferred to Kampala HQ
37. Lisbon (A) Jitendra Singh Parmar, Ms. Rekha Juyal, PPS
Immediate PPS

Stands transferred to HQ HQ
Posting of Shri Praveen, Steno to Lisbon cancelled.
38. London (A) Ms. Harshda Mangal, PA Titus Deena Dayaker
03-Feb-24 Eduri, PS
Transferred to Asuncion
HQ
39. Mexico City (B) Rupesh Kumar, PPS Ms. Subbalakshmi
09-Feb-24 Mohan, PPS

Transferred to Dublin
Houston (A*)
40. Munich (A) Ms. Satya Hemrajani, PPS Inderjeet Singh Kala, PS
01-May-24
Transferred to HQ on HQ
Superannuation

41. Muscat (B) Ms. Reena Jain, SPPS Vaibhav Chawla, PA

Immediate
Transferred to Tehran
Thimphu (C)
42. Muscat (B) Mahesh Chand , PPS Lilantu Kumar Mondal,
01-Apr-24 PS

Transferred to Bucharest HQ
43. New York PMI (A*) Dinesh Setia, SPPS Rentala Srinivas, PPS
13-Jan-24
Transferred to Riyadh HQ

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
44. Ottawa (A*) Mahesh Kumar Lakra, PS Ms. Arti Vasdev, PPS
01-Apr-24
Transferred to HQ on HQ
Superannuation

45. Ottawa (A*) C Gurusubramanian, PSO Tarun Kumar, PPS

01-June-24
Extension till HQ
Superannuation on 31st
May 2024.

46. Paris (A) Gaurav Kumar, now SO Ram Mohan Meena, PA

Commerce Post
Immediate Stands transferred to HQ Dhaka (C*)

47. Port Moresby (C*) 2 Akshay Kumar Meena, Vinod Panwar, PS

Yrs Steno
17-Mar-24
Transferred to Washington (A*)
Birmingham
48. Riyadh (C) Moh Akram, PA Dinesh Setia, SPPS
07-Apr-24
Transferred to Berne New York (A*)

49. Rome (A) Krishan Murari, PPS Ms. Lakshmi

01-Mar-24 Swaminathan, SPPS

Transferred to HQ on
HQ
Superannuation

50. Santiago (B) Ms. Anshul Chauhan, PS Bhupender Singh Kajla,

05-Feb-24 PPS
Transferred to HQ
Beijing (B)
51. Seattle (A*) New post Edward Lakra, SPPS
Immediate
HQ

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S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
52. Sittwe (C*) NF 2 Yrs Manoj Prajapati, Steno Arvind Kumar, PS
31-Mar-24
Transferred to Bratislava HQ

53. Suva (B) Kalu Ram Meena, PA Ms. Sonia Singh, PS

24-Feb-24
Transferred to Jeddah HQ

54. Tashkent (C) Rajeev Goswami, SPPS Ms. Anu Rawat, PS

08-Feb-24
Transferred to Canberra HQ

55. Tehran (C) Nanak Chand, now SO Himanshu Bhadoria,

Immediate Steno
Stands transferred to HQ
Malabo (C*)
56. Tehran (C ) Subham Ruhela, PA Ms. Reena Jain, SPPS
Commerce Post
09-Jan-24 Transferred to HQ Muscat (B)
57. The Hague (A) Ravi Shankar Kumar, PA Abhay Shankar Pandey,
Immediate PA

Stands transferred to HQ Djibouti (C*) 2 Yrs

58. Thimphu (C) Vaibhav Chawla, PA Anurag Ranjan Singh,

12-Apr-24 PA
Transferred to Muscat
HQ

59. Tokyo (A*) Mallikarjuna Rao Gutti, Anil Kumar, PA

Immediate now SO

Stands transferred to HQ Algiers (C*)

60. Tokyo (A*) Pankaj, now SO Jagmohan Tiwari, PS
Immediate
Stands transferred to HQ Bucharest (B)

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 S.No Mission/Post Present Incumbent Name of the
(Shri/Smt/Ms) Replacement
(Shri/Smt/Ms)
Date of Vacancy Next Station of Posting Present Posting
61. Toronto (A*) Gurvinder Singh Marwah, Ms. Parveen Juneja, PS
Commerce Post PPS
17-Feb-24
Transferred to Colombo HQ
62. Toronto (A*) Upendra Singh Negi, PPS Girish Kumar Juneja,
23-Mar-24 SPPS
Transferred to Kampala
HQ
63. Vilnius (B) New Post Ajay Kumar, PS
Immediate HQ
Posting of Sh. Ajay Kumar, PS to Bali reviewed.
64. Wellington (A*) Durga Dass, PPS Virender Kumar, PA
14-Mar-24
Transferred to HQ Bishkek (C)
65. Yangon (C) Vacant Arun Kachhap, PS
Immediate
HQ
66. Zanzibar (C*) Shabu K George, PPS K.Ramalingam, SPPS
01-May-24
Transferred to HQ on HQ
Superannuation

2. The following officers are transferred to Headquarters on completion of their tenure:

S. No. Name of the officer Station

1 Deepak Tomar, PA Havana
2 M R Gopa Kumar, SPPS Madrid
3 Mukesh Kumar, PS New York PMI
4 Rajesh Kumar, PPS Paris
5 K V Swaminathan, PPS Singapore
6 Dheeraj, PS Washington
****

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