Retired IAS Anil Swarup to head govt panel on NCC restructuring

RETIRED IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre Anil Swarup will head a government panel to suggest measures to strengthen National Cadet Corps (NCC) and National Service Scheme (NSS). While  announcing the move on Tuesday, the government said in a statement that suitable representatives from the NCC, the ministry of youth affairs and ministry of HRD are being…

“If I were to be born again, I would love to be an IAS officer”: Secretary Anil Swarup

Anil Swarup, 1981 batch IAS

BY THE end of this month, secretary of the department of school education and literacy — Anil Swarup — will retire after serving as a civil servant for long 37 years. Today (Tuesday), just ahead of his retirement, he has taken to the Twitter to give a hurrah to the IAS as a career when he said he enjoyed "every moment" as an IAS. The following is what the 1981 batch UP cadre IAS posted:

Unease in corridors after former coal secretary HC Gupta and 2 serving IAS get 2 years jail

THERE has been an unease and anger among many a senior IAS officer in the corridors when a special court in Delhi on Monday sentenced former coal secretary and 1971 batch retired IAS HC Gupta along with two serving IAS officers — KS Kropha, 1982 batch IAS and former joint secretary in coal ministry and present Meghalaya chief secretary, and KC Samria, 1993 batch IAS and the then director in coal ministry — to two years in jail in coal block allocation during the UPA regime. “We need to seriously ponder over the impact of Harish Chandra Gupta judgement on governance in the country”, said…

19 secretary-ranked officers appointed, reshuffled; Upma Chaudhary is new LBSNAA director

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the appointment-cum-reshuffle of 19 secretary level officials of the Central government. Coal secretary Anil Swarup will now be secretary, department of school education and Smt Upma Chaudhary, 1983 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS, presently in the cadre will be the new director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. Here is the full list of 19 appointments:

How to react when cabinet secretary invites you for a cup of tea? Coal secretary Anil Swarup’s tech talk

Anil Swarup, 1981 batch UP cadre IAS and current coal secretary argues that an administrator does not need to be a technologist to use technology in government. In a speech delivered in 14th Star Nite Awards 2015 recently (it’s available in YouTube), Swarup narrated how the then cabinet secretary Ajit K Seth called him for a cup of tea and gave him an assignment he was not very happy about. Edited excerpts of his speech on use of technology:

Coal secretary Anil Swarup: Meet this officer who tweets till mid-night on coal auction updates

Swarup (right) near the auction display board

SIX minutes past 10 at night on Wednesday. Coal secretary and 1981 batch UP cadre IAS Anil Swarup was still continuing his running commentary in a social media platform about the ongoing coal auction that has made the government richer by Rs 60,000 crore in less than a week of bidding. "Coal block auction status at 2206 : Gare Palma at 3084. Bidding still on", the secretary tweeted. It’s quite unusual that the top bureaucrat of a department…

Know Your Babu: New coal secretary and UP cadre IAS Anil Swarup

Anil Swarup, a 1981 batch UP cadre IAS and additional secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, will be the new coal secretary. Being the head of the Project Monitoring Group, a mechanism created by the last government to coordinate between warring ministries (for example, coal and power) and clear as many as 215 stalled projects valued at Rs 7 lakh crore, Swarup has been quite familiar…

Mega IAS Reshuffle: Finance Secretary Mayaram shifted as tourism secretary; Anil Swarup coal secretary, Mehrishi DEA secretary

THE day the elections in Maharashtra and Haryana got over, Centre engineered yet another major bureaucratic reshuffle in less than a month, shifting out finance secretary Arvind Mayaram and water resources secretary Alok Rawat, and appointing cabinet secretariat additional secretary Anil Swarup as the new coal secretary. Only on September 23, a mega bureaucratic reshuffle took place. (Read: Reshuffle on Super Tuesday). Mayaram, who was close to former finance minister P Chidambaram and has been working quite closely with incumbent Arun Jaitley as well, has now been appointed as…