NEW
DELHI: Retired IAS officers
Bhaskar Khulbe and
Amarjeet Sinha have been appointed as Advisors to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, a government order said on Friday.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointments in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in the rank and scale of Secretary, the order said.
Both the
Indian Administrative Service officers are from the 1983 batch. Khulbe was from the
West Bengal cadre and Sinha was from the
Bihar cadre.
Sinha retired as the Rural Development Secretary last year, while Khulbe has served in the PMO.
The appointments have been made on contractual basis initially for a period of two years, or until further orders, the communication said.
Usual terms and conditions as applicable in the case of re-employed officers of Secretary-level in the government are applicable on them, it added.