Anurag Srivastava takes over as MEA spokesperson; to succeed Raveesh Kumar
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Senior diplomat Anurag Srivastava on Monday took charge as the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, succeeding Raveesh Kumar. Srivastava is an Indian Foreign Service officer from 1999-batch and was serving as India's Ambassador to Ethiopia. He was part of the Finance Division of the MEA which is tasked to administer it's annual budget of about $2 billion before getting appointed as Indian envoy to Ethopia.