Rachita Appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to Malta

Rachita Bhandari of the 2005 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, presently serving as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Malta, the MEA said. 

She is expected to take up the assignment shortly. India and Malta share



friendly and cordial relations. India was among the first countries to recognise Malta’s independence in 1964 and established diplomatic ties in 1965. 

The Indian High Commission in Malta was reopened in January 2017, with the resident High Commissioner taking charge in January 2018.