Amit Khare gets extension as advisor to PM Modi

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.