List of high commissioners of India to Bangladesh

The high commissioner of India to the People's Republic of Bangladesh is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Bangladesh. The high commission is located in the Diplomatic enclave of Baridhara, Dhaka.

High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh
Logo of Indian High Commission
Incumbent Pranay Kumar Verma, IFS since 30 July 2022
Residence	Baridhara, Dhaka
Nominator	Droupadi Murmu
Formation	1968
Website	Embassy of India, Dhaka High Commissioner of India, Dhaka

The high commission is headed by the High commissioner, while four other Assistant High Commissions of India are located in four major cities of the country, which are headed by an Assistant High Commissioner.

List of Indian high commissioners to Bangladesh

The following IFS officers have served as High Commissioners of India to Bangladesh.^[1]

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Subimal Dutt	February 1972	June 1974	3rd Foreign Secretary of India
Samar Sen	July 1974	November 1976
K. P. S. Menon	January 1977	September 1979
Muchkund Dubey	October 1979	October 1982
I. P. Khosla	November 1982	August 1985
I. S. Chaddha	October 1985	February 1989
Krishnan Srinivasan	February 1989	March 1992	former Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General of Political Affair 19th Foreign Secretary of India
K. Raghunath	April 1992	March 1995
Deb Mukherjee	April 1995	July 2000
M. L. Tripathi	July 2000	October 2003
Veena Sikri	December 2003	November 2006
P. R. Chakraborty	January 2007	December 2009
Rajeet Mitter	December 2009	October 2011
Pankaj Saran	March 2012	December 2015	current Deputy National Security Adviser (since 2018)
Harsh Vardhan Shringla	January 2016	January 2019	Former Ambassador of India to the United States 33rd Foreign Secretary of India[2]
Riva Ganguly Das	1 March 2019	12 August 2020
Vikram Doraiswami	12 August 2020	20 September 2022	Currently High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (September 2022 – Present)[3]
Pranay Kumar Verma	21 September 2022	Incumbent[4]

Assistant High Commissioners

Alongside that there are 4 Assistant High Commissioners, appointed in four cities: Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, and Sylhet.^[5]

City	Current Assistant High Commissioner	Location	Website
Chittagong	Dr. Rajeev Ranjan	2111, Zakir Hossain Road, Khulshi	AHCI Chittagong
Rajshahi	Manoj Kumar	House no. 284/2, Housing Estate, Sapura	AHCI Rajshahi
Khulna	Inder Jit Sagar	House no. 65, Shamshur Rahman Road, Khulna	AHCI Khulna
Sylhet	Chander Shekhar	House no. 40, Road no. 2, Block-E, Shah Jalal Upa Sahar	AHCI Sylhet

References

1. "পূর্ববর্তী হাই কমিশনারবৃন্দ (Former High Commissioners)". Embassy of India, Dhaka.
2. "Harsh Vardhan Shringla appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the US". Ministry of External Affairs. 20 December 2018.
3. "Diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami appointed India's next envoy to Bangladesh". Hindustan Times. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
4. "Shri Pranay Kumar Verma appointed as new Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka". The Business Standard. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
5. "সহকারী হাই কমিশনসমূহ (Assistant High Commissioners)". Embassy of India, Bangladesh.