New Delhi: Former bureaucrat Amit Khare has been given extension as advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Personnel Ministry order said.
According to Dynamite News correspondent, Khare, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Jharkhand cadre of 1985 batch, had superannuated in September 2021. He was appointed as advisor to Prime Minister Modi in October 2021 for two years.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the extension in Khare's tenure, on contract basis on the usual terms and conditions as are applicable in the case of re-employed officers of secretary-level in the government of India, beyond October 12, 2023 for a period "co-terminus with the term of Prime Minister", the order said on Monday.
