Amit Khare gets extension as advisor to PM Modi

Amit Khare gets extension as advisor to PM Modi

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: September 29 2023

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  • Former bureaucrat Amit Khare has been given extension as advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
  • The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension in Khare’s tenure beyond 12 October 2023, for a period co-terminus with the term of Prime Minister.
  • He was appointed to the post for two years in October 2021. Khare, a 1985-batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre, had superannuated on 30th September 2021.
  • He also served as the higher education secretary.
  • In another order, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has also approved the extension in tenure of Rajesh S Gokhale as secretary, Department of Biotechnology, for a period of two years, with effect from 1st November 2023.
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