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PHONE: 044 28251323

Application from Andhra Pradesh can get their documents attested in Hyderabad itself.
Office address in Hyderabad:

MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS,

BRANCH SECRETERIAT,

B-BLOCK, ROOM 311-312

HYDERABAD

PHONE: 040 23456051

Apostille Attestation from MEA

Apostille Attestation of Documents from MEA in India:

Ministry of External Affairs is providing Apostille Attestation on documents issued from India
for the use of it in foreign countries.  

We, Urogulf can provide Apostille Attestation Services from Ministry of External Affairs India
on behalf of you. 

Apostille Attesting documents:

India is a member of the Hague Convention of October 5, 1961, abolishing the requirement of
legalisation of foreign public documents. Apostille is acceptable in 94 member countries of the
convention and is issued for personal documents like birth, death, marriage certificates,
affidavits, power of attorney etc... and educational documents like Master degree, Degree,
diploma, matriculation or secondary level certificates etc... However, commercial documents
are excluded from the purview of the convention. 

Apostille Attestation Procedure: All documents requiring attestation or apostille should be

first authenticated by the designated agencies in the State from where the document has been
issued. In case of personal documents, Home Department/General Administration Department
are the designated authorities.

In case of educational documents, State Governments have opened Regional Authentication

Centres (RACs) in the States from where the document should first be attested. 

REGIONAL AUTHENTICATION CENTRES FOR AUTHENTICATION OF

EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS/GENERAL DOCUMENTS for getting apostle from

MEA, Delhi: 

1) Andhra Pradesh

1. Shri N. V. Ramana Reddy, Special Secretary (Protocol), General Administration

Department.

2. Shri D. Ramakrishna, Joint Secretary (GPM & AR)

3. Shri W. Ganeshan, Joint Secretary (AIS) General Administration Department,

Old Reception Hall, Near Old Gate, A. P. Secretariat Building, Hyderabad, Tele: 040-
23454823 (O)

2) Assam

1. Shri Delwar Hussain, Inspector of College, Assam, Office of Director Higher Education,
Kahilipara, Guwahati, Assam. Tel: 0361-2382286

3) Bihar

1. Shri Gopal Ji, Deputy director, Higher Education, Human Resource Development
Department, Patna for (i) Magadh University, Bodh Gaya (ii) Veer Kunwar Singh University,
Ara (iii) Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur

2. Shri Vijay Kumar Himanshu, Deputy Director, Higher Education for Patna University

3. Shri Sunil Kumar, Deputy Director Higher Education for (a) Baba Saheb Bhim Rao
Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur (b) Jai Prakash University, Chhapra

4. Shri Suryadeo Kumar Paswan, Assistant Director Higher Education for (a) Lalit Narain
Mithila University, Darbhanga (b) Bhupendra Narain Mandal University, Madhepura (c)
Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University, Darbhanga.

Resident Commissioner’s office Phone: 011-23014945, 23015067

4) Chandigarh (UT)

1. Smt Kamla Bains, District Education Officer, UT, Chandigarh

2. Shri Gulzar Singh, Deputy Director, Adult Education, UT, Chandigarh

Delhi Resident office Phone: 011-2335359

5) Chattisgarh

1. Shri Sunil Kujur, Secretary

2. Dr. A.K. Shukla, Additional Director, Office of the Commissioner Higher Education,
Raipur

3. Dr. D. S. Bal, Additional Director (Technical) DKS Bhawan, Mantralaya, Raipur-492001,

Phone: 2221258, 4089345.

6) Dadra and Nagar Haveli (UT)

1. Shri V C Pandey, Director of Education, and

2. Shri D Balalah, Assistant Director of Education Administrator’s office Phone: 0260-

2642777

7) Delhi (NCT)

Shri Dharam Vir Singh, RDE (South), C-4, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi. Phone: 26141613

8) Goa

1. Dr Bhaskar G Nair, Director of Higher Education, Government of Goa, Junta House, 2nd
Lift, 5th Floor, Panaji, Goa, Tel: 2425582/85, Fax: 2425582, Mobile: 9822802572

2. Dr Colsa Pinto, Director of Education, Government of Goa, Panaji-Goa

3. Shri Aleixo F da Costa State Director of Craftsmen Training, Sharam Shakti Bhawan, 3rd
Floor, Patto Plaza, Panaji, Goa - 403001

4. Dr Chandrasekhar, Director, Directorate of Technical Education, Alto Prvorim Goa,

Phone:0832-2413571, Fax: 2413571

9) Gujarat

1. Shri A D Patel Under Secretary, Government of Gujarat (GAD)

2. Shri Lalit T. Vyas Under Secretary, Education Department Sachivalaya, Gandhi Nagar,
Gujarat Phone: 079-23250362

10) Haryana

1. Higher Education Commissioner/Director Higher Education, Haryana in respect of

certificate(s)/degree(s) issued by Universities situated outside the State of Haryana

2. Registrar of the concerned University in the State which has issued the Certificate(s)/
diploma(s)/ degree(s).

3. Director Secondary Education, Haryana in respect of certificate(s)/diploma(s)/ degree issued

by National Open School, Central Board of Secondary Education, ICSE or any other State
Board of Education in the country

4. The Secretary Board of School Education, Haryana, Bhiwani in respect of Matriculation and
10+2 certificates issued by it or by the Haryana Open School.

Shri Rajan Gupta, Phone 2740960, Smt. Joyoti Arora, Higher Education Deptt., Shiksha
Sadan, Panchkula, Phone: 0172-2562036 2562042

11) Himachal Pradesh

Shri P. Mishra , Secretary (Education), Himachal Pradesh, Simla. Phone 0177-2621894

12) Jammu & Kashmir

1. Shri R. K. Sharma, Special Secretary to Government, Technical Education Department, J

& K, Civil Secretary Jammu/Srinagar. Tel#(J) 0191-2546284, (K) 0194-2485765, 941940885
(M)

2. Professor (Dr) Ali Mohammad Mir, Principal, SP. College, M A Road, Srinagar, (J&K),
Fax: 0194-2476828, Mob- 09419010839, Residential Address-Chandpora, Harwan, Srinagar,
Kashmir 191123, Phone-0194-2462156

3. Professor Vijay Kotwal, Principal C. G. M. Sc. College, Jammu

13) Jharkhand
1. Shri Prem Prakash Sinha, Deputy Director

2. Shri Arvind Kumar Jha, Deputy Director

3. Shri Achutanand Thakur, Deputy Director, Department of Human Resource

Development, Ranchi, Resident Commissioner’s office Phone: 011-261 92274, 26180743

14) Karnataka

1. Shri H C Nagendra, Deputy Secretary/Smt Alice Gonsalves, Under Secretary, Home

Department, Passport and Foreigners, Room No 224, IInd Floor, Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore-
560001, Tel: 080-22033371 (O)

Resident Commissioners of Gulbarga, Belgaum and Mysore

15) Kerala

Shri K. S. Gopinathan Nair, Regional Authentication officer, Lotus Villa, Sasthamangalam,

Thiruvananthapuram Tel: 0471- 5575212 (O)

16) Madhya Pradesh

1. Shri Mahendra Singh Raghuvanshi, Block 3 Green city, 35, Gulmohur Bhawan, Bhopal,
Phone 0755-2741024

2. Smt S. Khandate, Under Secretary, Higher Education, Department, M.P. Phone 0755-
2765656 (R)

17) Maharashtra

1.Smt Seema Dhanderi, Joint Secretary, Higher Education Department 4th Floor Mantralaya
Annexe, Mumbai-400032 Tel: 02222024237 (O), 24367773 (R)

18) Meghalaya

1. Smt R V Suchiang, IAS, Commissioner & Secretary, Education department, Government

of Meghalaya, Shillong, Phone: 0364-2210132

19) Mizoram

Shri R Malsawrna, Under Secretary, Higher & Technical Education Department, Govt of
Mizoram, Phone: 0389-2317548

20) Orissa
1. Shri B C Jena, Special Secretary, Home Department

2. Shri Tarun Kanti Mishra, Secretary Assistant to Special Secretary

3. Shri Chaturbhuj Mallick, Joint Secretary, Deptt. Of Higher Education, Govt. of Orissa,
Phone: 0674-2322512 Fax: 2238113, Mobile: 09839077600

21) Pudducherry

Dr Jayanta Kumar Ray, Director, Fax: 0412-2254590, (O) 0413- 2257831

22) Punjab

1. Smt Neelam Mahajan/Smt Harleen Kaur Bedi, Assistance Director/

Smt Manjeet Indra, Assistance Director/

Smt Sarita Chopra, Assistance Director/

Smt Sulakshna Kapur, Under Secretary/

Shri Piara Lal, Deputy Secretary,

Shri Anjul Dev Bhandari, Under Secretary

Smt. Manorama Devi, Under Secretary

Shri Vinod Bakshi, Under Secretary,

Department of Non-Resident Indian Affairs, Government of Punjab, Ground Floor, Mini

Secretariat, Sector-9, Chandigarh

2. Dr Atamjit Singh, Deputy Director (Colleges), Director of Public Instruction © Punjab,

Chandigarh

23) Rajasthan

1. Dr O P Gupta, Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Department of Higher Education, Room No

203, 2nd Floor, Main Building, Government Secretariat, Rajasthan, Jaipur Phone: 0141-
2227017 (O), 9829132131 (Mob), 0141-2227017 {Residence

Address: Dr O P Gupta, F-40, Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur (Rajasthan)

2. Shri Madhusudan Sharma Phone: 0140-22227724 (O), 9950999703 (Mobile), 0141-

2227395 (Fax)

24) Sikkim

1. Shri G B Niraula, Joint Director (Examination)

2. Miss Diki Topenden, Deputy Director (Examination) Resident Commissioner’s office

Phone: 011-26113747

25) Tamilnadu

1. Shri K. Ganeshan, Secretary Higher Education, Government of Tamil Nadu Phone 044-
25670499

2. Under Secretary Government Public (Foreigners) Department, Government of Tamilnadu,

Chennai.

26) Uttar Pradesh

1. Shri Om Prakash Mishra, Under Secretary

2. Shri Ramanand Prasad, Joint Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Government of

U.P., Lucknow, Phone 0522 2238001 Extension 3202 Fax 0522 2238287

27) Uttrakhand

1. Shri K. S. Bisht, Under Secretary GED

2. Shri N S Dungariyal, Secretary GAD, Phone: 0135-2712802.

Shri M S Khan

28) West Bengal

1. Shri A K Barua, Section Officer, Home (Foreigner & NRI),

2. Shri C Raychaudhuri, Joint Secretary, (Home Department) Writers Building, Kolkata-

700001 Fax: 22145479

Documents attested by the above authorities can be presented to the MEA office for apostille
attestation from India.