FT Reports That India Will Double Diplomatic Corps

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs announced that it plans to double its diplomatic corps within the next five years, reports Jo Johnson of the Financial Times. During a decade in which India joined 13 multilateral organizations and saw its foreign trade surge seven-fold, the number of staff working for the ministry of external affairs decreased from 4,866 to 4,746. In order to address its shortage of personnel, the ministry has already begun filling its ranks with a generation of young strategists who have recast foreign policy for the post-cold war era.