{"id":334216,"date":"2021-10-19T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=334216"},"modified":"2021-10-19T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:54:34","slug":"amit-khare-appointed-as-pm-modis-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amit-khare-appointed-as-pm-modis-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Amit Khare appointed as PM Modi\u2019s advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-334217\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Amit-Khare.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/10\/Amit-Khare.png 679w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/10\/Amit-Khare-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Former bureaucrat Amit Khare has been appointed as advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for two years on contract basis, a personnel ministry order issued on Tuesday. He retired last month as higher education secretary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Amit Khare, a 1985 batch (retired) IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre, had retired on September 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has accepted the appointment of Khare as advisor to the prime minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, in the rank and scale of secretary to government of India, on contract basis, initially for a period of two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Amit Khare took charge as the higher education secretary in December 2019. He also served as information and broadcasting ministry secretary during May 2018 and December 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former bureaucrat Amit Khare has been appointed as advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for two years on contract basis, a personnel ministry order issued on Tuesday. He retired last month as higher education secretary. Amit Khare, a 1985 batch (retired) IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre, had retired on September 30. The Appointments Committee of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":334217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,1801],"tags":[8964,1445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334218,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334216\/revisions\/334218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/334217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}