Which among the following award is given for excellence in the Indian Foreign Service?
Which among the following award is given for excellence in the Indian Foreign Service?
[A]J.N. Dixit award
[B]S.K. Singh award
[C]Muchukund Dubey award
[D]Romesh Bhandari award
S.K. Singh award
Tanmaya Lal, a Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1991 batch was honoured with the second S K Singh award for outstanding Foreign Service. Lal was given the award for his stupendous efforts to help 15,000 Indians in Thailand in 2008 when the country was up in flames following mass unrest and the Bangkok airport was closed for many days. Lal was deputy chief of mission in Bangkok when he helped evacuate then Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and Commerce Secretary G K Pillai from Pattaya in April 2009. The award, given in memory of former foreign secretary S K Singh, was instituted by the Singh family’s Jai Surendra Trust in partnership with the ministry of external affairs.