Anil Swarup, IAS (Retd)

Anil Swarup is a former 1981 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer and was awarded Director’s gold medal for “best officer trainee” at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA). He served the Government of India in various capacities for 38 years and went on to become Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy and the Coal Secretary of India. He is the author of several books like ‘No More a Civil Servant,’ ‘Ethical dilemmas of a civil servant’ and ‘Not just a civil servant’.

Ethics In Bureaucracy: Does Honesty Pay?

By Anil Swarup, IAS (Retd) 04 Mar 2023

A bureaucrat would fall into a combination of the following categories. Honest, efficient, not pliable and dishonest, inefficient, pliable. It would be an honest admission to accept that a combination of honest, efficient, and non-pliable bureaucrat has become a rare occurrence.