Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra renamed as Sushma Swaraj Bhawan

The Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra of India has renamed as Sushma Swaraj Bhawan on February 13, 2020. Another key institution, Foreign Service Institute was also renamed as Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service. The decision to rename the two important institutions was announced by the External Affairs Ministry on February 13.

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Sushma Swaraj was India’s first full-time woman foreign minister and the second woman-ever to hold the post after Indira Gandhi. She was a seven-time Parliamentarian and three-time member of legislative assembly. She had served as the fifth Chief Minister of Delhi in 1998 for a short term. In 1977, she had become the youngest cabinet minister of Haryana at the age of 25 years. At the age of 25 in 1977, she became the youngest cabinet minister of Indian state of Haryana.