![]() Foreign Service Board This organization works under the chairmanship of the Foreign Secretary. Other members of the Board are Secretary (East), Secretary (West) and Joint Secretary (Administration) in the Ministry. The Secretary in the Commerce Ministry is also a member. The Board advises the government in postings and transfers of the diplomatic officers other than those of heads of missions; all promotions and confirmation in the Indian Foreign Service or the IFS (A) up to grade IV; promotions to the senior scale of IFS (A) from IFS (B) in consultation with the Union Public Service Commission(UPSC); and grant of diplomatic status to officers posted in Indian missions abroad. Foreign Service Training Institute The Ministry of external Affairs has its own training arrangements for its personnel. The activities of this institute are ever increasing. The Ministry has no attached offices. However, there are over a 100 missions abroad. The diplomatic and consular missions abroad have a unique status and cannot be described either as Attached or Subordinate offices. The Ministry does have two subordinate offices namely, the Central Passport and Emigration Organization, New Delhi and the External Affairs Hostel, New Delhi. During 1990, several innovative measures were introduced by the Consular, Passport and Visa (CPV) Division to rationalize, simplify and further streamline the functioning of the passport offices in India and the consular sections of the Indian missions abroad. Thus discussed is a brief outline of the structure and functioning of the Ministry of External Affairs in India. |
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