New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- Senior diplomat Sudhakar Dalela, currently serving as Secretary within the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), has been named India's next Ambassador to Nepal, as stated by the MEA on Friday.

"Shri Sudhakar Dalela (IFS: 1993), Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Nepal. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly," the MEA stated in an official release.

Dalela, belonging to the 1993 batch of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), presently holds the position of Secretary (Economic Relations) at the ministry.

He succeeds Naveen Srivastava, who previously held a farewell meeting with Nepal's Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal on September 16 upon concluding his tenure as Indi...