Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Winds of change sweep India’s foreign office

NEW DELHI, Aug 11: The elite Indian Foreign Service (IFS) that powers India’s global diplomacy and manages relations with nations is changing. Mid-career training and specialization are the new mantra. Promotions were a matter of aging gracefully, but now even senior diplomats have to prove themselves to move up the career ladder.
In a never-before event, 30 joint secretary rank diplomats - or mid-career diplomats - due for promotion were sent to the Indian School of Business, the country’s top business school, at Hyderabad to reorient them to the new challenges of economic diplomacy in a business-driven world.

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