Seattle Consulate: India set to open Seattle consulate, appoints consul basic
Years after India introduced it could open a consulate in Seattle, the federal government has lastly moved to operationalise the consulate within the US Pacific Northwest by appointing a consul basic.
Official sources stated Prakash Gupta, an IFS officer of the 2002 batch, would be the first consul basic in Seattle. He’s anticipated to journey to Seattle later this month to open the consulate.Gupta handles UN affairs in MEA and has prior to now served because the deputy chief of mission in Indonesia and in addition because the consul basic in Shanghai. An official announcement is predicted in the course of the 2+2 ministerial dialogue subsequent week.
The opening of the consulate in Seattle, a know-how hub that’s dwelling to many Indian nationals and multinational giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks and Boeing, was one of many main bulletins made by the federal government throughout PM Narendra Modi’s landmark state go to to the US in June this yr. India had first introduced its plan to open a consulate in Seattle in 2016.
India additionally introduced in the course of the go to that it’ll open consulates in 2 different US cities. The US had additionally introduced that it’ll open consulates in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad.
“Concomitant with the speedy progress in our strategic partnership and demand for journey, either side intend to open new consulates in one another’s international locations. The USA intends to provoke the method to open two new consulates in India within the cities of Bengaluru and Ahmedabad,” stated the joint assertion after the Modi-Biden summit in June. Seattle would be the sixth US metropolis to have an Indian consulate after New York, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.
Official sources stated Prakash Gupta, an IFS officer of the 2002 batch, would be the first consul basic in Seattle. He’s anticipated to journey to Seattle later this month to open the consulate.Gupta handles UN affairs in MEA and has prior to now served because the deputy chief of mission in Indonesia and in addition because the consul basic in Shanghai. An official announcement is predicted in the course of the 2+2 ministerial dialogue subsequent week.
The opening of the consulate in Seattle, a know-how hub that’s dwelling to many Indian nationals and multinational giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks and Boeing, was one of many main bulletins made by the federal government throughout PM Narendra Modi’s landmark state go to to the US in June this yr. India had first introduced its plan to open a consulate in Seattle in 2016.
India additionally introduced in the course of the go to that it’ll open consulates in 2 different US cities. The US had additionally introduced that it’ll open consulates in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad.
“Concomitant with the speedy progress in our strategic partnership and demand for journey, either side intend to open new consulates in one another’s international locations. The USA intends to provoke the method to open two new consulates in India within the cities of Bengaluru and Ahmedabad,” stated the joint assertion after the Modi-Biden summit in June. Seattle would be the sixth US metropolis to have an Indian consulate after New York, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.
