Kolkata born Rukma Shumsher Rana, who received his early education at Doon School, will be Nepal’s new Ambassador to India, filling a post that was vacant for about one year.
The son of Nepali Congress’s founder leader Subarna Shumsher Rana, Shumsher was officially appointed as the new envoy by President Ram Baran Yadav yesterday following a recommendation of the Council of Ministers.
Born in Calcutta on March 12, 1936, when his father was in exile in India, Mr. Rana was educated at Prince of Wales and Doon School, Milfield School, and St Xavier’s College in Darjeeling. He also has an MA degree in History from Calcutta University.
Mr. Rana, who assumes the post that fell vacant when the then Maoist government recalled Durgesh Man Sigh, a Nepali Congress appointee, will join office within two to three weeks.
As the Ambassador to India, Mr. Rana, a former member secretary of the Nepal Sports Council, said he would focus on developing better sporting relations between the two nations.
Mr. Rana said he would also work for further strengthening and expanding the traditionally friendly relations and to develop better economic ties between Nepal and India.
“India is much advanced in sports as compared to Nepal and we want to learn and share experience from Indian players by developing good relations among the sportsmen of the two countries,” he said.
