He helped the Centre to partner Jammu and Kashmir to help reform school education system in the state and prepare a blueprint to overcome deficiencies in programme implementation in the year 2017. The book ‘Not Just a Civil Servant’which was released earlier this year chronicles the journey through Anil Swarup’s early career in Uttar Pradesh where he faced several issues at district and state level, and also at the national level where he worked for the Ministry of Labour, the Cabinet Secretariat and then served as Secretary, Ministry of Coal, and Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy under the Ministry of Human Resource Development.Īs Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development (School Education and Literacy), Swarup played a vital role to help the Centre to draw a roadmap for the Valley schools. He also spoke about the importance of transparency in governance and public-private partnerships and urged upon the participants to take administrative service as the best opportunity to serve the people of the country. In his address, Swarup talked about his beginnings as an IAS officer and the amusing things he saw travelling the country. They hailed Swarup’s contribution especially towards the education sector of J&K. The audience posed questions to Swarup regarding his tenure as a civil servant and different facets vis-a-vis Jammu and Kashmir.

There was a marathon question-answer session regarding the book and experiences of Swarup as a civil servant. Swarup is former Secretary, School Education (2016-2018) and Ministry of Coal (2014-2016), Government of India.

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