Amit Khare named I&B secretary in bureaucratic reshuffle

Senior bureaucrat Amit Khare, who blew the lid off the infamous fodder scam in Bihar, was on Friday appointed secretary to the information and broadcasting ministry as part of a major reshuffle involving 24 top IAS officers.

Anup Wadhawan and former Delhi chief secretary M M Kutty have been named new commerce and petroleum secretaries respectively. Rina Ray has been appointed secretary, the department of school education and literacy, an order issued by the personnel ministry said.

Khare, a 1985-batch IAS officer, is at present serving in his cadre state Jharkhand.

He had, in June 1996, reportedly exposed the multi-crore fodder scam, involving the then chief minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad, when he was working as the Deputy Commissioner of Chaibasa (now in Jharkhand). Khare will take over the charge from incumbent N K Sinha who superannuates on May 31.