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Who Is Amit Khare? Ex-Bureaucrat Appointed as Secretary to Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan
Amit Khare, with extensive government experience, joins Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan's Secretariat to provide administrative leadership for a three-year term starting from assumption of office.
- The Government of India appointed Amit Khare as Secretary to Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan on Sunday, September 14, 2025.
- This appointment followed Radhakrishnan's election and swearing-in in September, which was necessitated by Jagdeep Dhankhar's mid-term resignation on July 21 for health reasons.
- Khare is a retired 1985-batch IAS officer from the Jharkhand cadre with significant experience, including roles as Union Secretary for Information & Broadcasting, Higher Education, Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University, and Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- He is widely noted for exposing Bihar's fodder scam, contributed to the 2020 National Education Policy formulation, and introduced reforms such as Direct Benefit Transfer and gender budgeting in Jharkhand.
- Khare's three-year contract as Secretary to the Vice-President starts from his assumption of charge, ensuring administrative continuity in the Vice-President's office.
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Who is Amit Khare? Ex-IAS, architect of National Education Policy, now Secretary to new Vice President
Former bureaucrat Amit Khare, known for his role in the National Education Policy and the 'fodder scam,' has been appointed as the Secretary to newly elected Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan for a three-year term.
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