Bank details for Swedish residents:

Bank Giro No. 5816-4930

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The particulars of its organization, functions and duties;

Embassy of India, Stockholm is headed by Ambassador. It has 6 Wings headed by Diplomatic officers: (i) Administration /Chancery Wing (ii) Consular Wing (iii) Defence Wing (iv) Economic & Commerce Wing (v) Political Wing (vi) Information, Culture and Education Wing. The functions of the Embassy, inter alia, include political, economic and defence cooperation, trade and investment promotion; cultural interaction, press and media liaison and scientific cooperation in the bilateral and multilateral contexts. Embassy functions within the purview of business allocated to the Ministry of External Affairs under the Government of India’s Allocation of Business Rules and Transaction of Business Rules.

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The powers and duties of its officers and employees;

General Administrative powers are derived from Indian Foreign Services Pay, Leave and Compensatory Allowances Rules, as amended from time to time. Financial powers of Officers of the Embassy of India have been detailed in the Delegated Financial powers of the Government of India’s Representatives Abroad. Consular powers are derived from the Passport Act of India. The Officers of the Embassy function under the guidance and supervision of Ambassador.

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The procedure followed in the decision-making process, including channels of supervision and accountability;

Decisions are taken under the instructions and supervision of the Ambassador and as per guidelines issued by Ministry of External Affairs from time to time.

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The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions;

Norms are set under the instructions and supervision of the Ambassador and as per guidelines issued by Ministry of External Affairs from time to time.

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The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by it or under its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions;

IFS (PLCA) rules and annexes, Delegated Financial Powers of Government of India’s Representatives abroad Rules, Passport Act, Manuals on Office Procedures and Other Central Government Rules and manuals published by Central Government from time to time.

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A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its control;

Classified documents/files relating to India’s external relations. Unclassified documents/files including joint statements, declarations, agreements and MoUs. Passport and consular services application forms.

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The particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or representation by, the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or implementation thereof;

Embassy of India functions within the norms of India’s foreign policy formulated by the Ministry of External Affairs. Policy is implemented by the Embassy under the guidance and supervision of the Ambassador. There are bilateral mechanisms exist to discuss the new areas of cooperation and implementation of policies.

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A statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advice, and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, committees and other bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible for public;

Tender evaluation committee and other committees are formed as and when required within Embassy as per directions of the Ministry. Embassy interacts regularly with representatives of think tanks, academic community and others.

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A directory of its officers and employees;

The directory of officers may be downloaded from here.

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The monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including the system of compensation as provided in its regulations;

A statement of monthly remuneration is shown at Annexure-I

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The budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made;

The Budget figures are given in the statement shown at Annexure-II.

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The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes;

Embassy of India does not have any subsidy programmes.

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Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by it;

No concessions/permits are granted by Embassy of India

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Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it, reduced in an electronic form

The Embassy’s website contains the required information.

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The particulars of facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use

The Embassy of India has a separate Information and Culture Wing to provide information to the general public. 

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The names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information Officers;

Central Public Information Officer : Mr. Bipin Kumar Baranwal, Second Secretary

Tel +46 76 68432100
Email: hoc[dot]stockholm[at]mea[dot]gov[dot]in

The information of previous CPIOs of the Mission can be seen here.

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Such other information as may be prescribed and thereafter update these publications every year;

The Embassy’s website is updated on a regular basis.