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During his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup strived to 'make it happen'. Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, he did his Masters in Political Science from Allahabad University in 1978 where he was also awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for being the Best All-Round Student. Before joining the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1981, he served in the Indian Police Service for a year. He won the Director's Gold Medal for the Best Officer Trainee at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. As a civil servant, he held various assignments within the State (Uttar Pradesh) as well as in the Central Government. During the final years of his career, he served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Coal where he handled the aftermath of the coal scam. Thereafter, he served as Secretary, School Education and Literacy, where he attempted to foster public-private partnerships to improve the quality of school education. He has won several awards and nominations, the pnt one being nominated as one of the Policy Change Agents by The Economics Times during the years 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2016. He was also selected as one of the 35 Action Heroes in India Today's 35th Annual Edition. He is the Founder Chairman of Nexus of Good, an initiative towards recognising positive actions and thereby inspiring society to replicate them. He is the author of well-known books like Not Just a Civil Servant, Ethical Dilemmas of a Civil Servant, and No More a Civil Servant.

Encounters with Politicians

The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is a nationwide competitive examination in India conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to various Civil Services of the Government of India, including the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), and Indian Police Service (IPS). Also simply referred to as the UPSC examination, it is conducted in three phases - a preliminary examination consisting of two objective-type papers (General Studies Paper I and General Studies Paper II also popularly known as Civil Service Aptitude Test or CSAT), and a main examination consisting of nine papers of conventional (essay) type, in which two papers are qualifying and only marks of seven are counted followed by a personality test (interview).

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