'Move to increase the tenure of BEd courses a demonetisation in education'

The country doesn't require another education policy. What it needs is a clear cut action plan, said, Anil Swarup, former coal secretary

Anil Swarup, former coal secretary, tells Shreya Jai Indian bureaucrats can achieve a lot if they are not afraid of facing the consequences of their actions. Edited excerpts:

Any civil servant’s most formative experience is his work as District Magistrate (DM)…

I was posted as DM at Lakhimpur Kheri in UP – 150 kms north of Lucknow, on the India-Nepal border. I served in just one district for my entire term and everything that could happen in a district, happened there: An 18-hour encounter with Sikh insurgents in which we shot down five terrorists; the Babri Masjid agitation; floods; and the farmer