Amit Khare is an Indian Administrative Service officer (1985 batch) from Bihar/Jharkhand cadre and is appointed advisor to PM Narendra Modi on 12 October 2021. He is noted for his role in bringing to light the Fodder scam, in which Rs. 940 crores were embezzled in Bihar over many years, and successive chief ministers Jagannath Mishra and Lalu Yadav have been imprisoned.
Education
He was born in a religious Chitraguptvanshi Kayastha family and did his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hinoo in 1977 and then finished his Bachelor's with Honors from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
He has an elder brother Atul Khare, who is an Indian Foreign Service officer.
Fodder Scam
In late 1995, Bihar was in a financial crunch. The then charismatic yet 'native' leader Lalu Prasad Yadav was the Chief Minister of undivided Bihar, where the then finance commissioner VS Dubey stumbled upon the financial irregularities of massive scale.
In December 1995, Dubey was, as part of his job...