Ashok Khemka
| Dr. Ashok Khemka | |
|---|---|
| Born |
30 April 1965 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education |
B Tech in Computer Science Ph.D in Computer Science MBA in Business Admn. Finance MA in Economics |
| Alma mater |
IIT Kharagpur Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
| Occupation | Bureaucrat |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Employer | Government of India |
| Organization | Indian Administrative Service |
| Known for | IAS officer who cancelled the mutation of Robert Vadra -DLF land deal. |
| Awards | S R Jindal Prize in 2011 for "Crusade against Corruption" |
Ashok Khemka (अशोक खेमका) is a senior Indian Administrative Service officer in the Indian state of Haryana and best known for cancelling the mutation of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's illegal land deal in Gurgaon. He has been transferred 45 times in 23 years by state governments after he exposed corruption in the departments he was posted in.
Ashok Khemka was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1988 with a B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering and followed it up with a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and a MBA degree in Business Admn. Finance. He also holds a MA Economics degree from IGNOU.
He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of the Haryana Cadre. He has been repeatedly transferred by various state governments in his home cadre of Haryana after he exposed corruption in the departments he was posted in.
Khemka was posted as Secretary to the Govt. of Haryana, Department of Archives and Archaeology on 4 April 2013. He was also given the charge of DG Archives and Archaeology on 26 April 2013. This is his 45th posting in his 20-year career excluding his 2 yr training period. In the previous month, he had exposed a deal that he thought to be untoward and had requested an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation. The government of Haryana refused this and Bhiwani-based NGO filed PIL on the same scam.On 18 October 2013, CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry into the alleged irregularities in the purchase of wheat seeds in HSDC seeking registration of a case against officials of National Cooperative Consumers Federation(NCCF) and National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) for selling seeds at inflated prices to HSDC.
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