He is the Founder Chairman of Nexus of Good: an initiative towards recognising positive action and providing inspiration to the society at large to replicate them.

He was selected as one of the 35 Action Heroes in India Today's 35' Annual Edition. As a strategic thinker and an innovative leader, he won several awards and nominations, the prominent ones being: Nominated as one of the Policy Change Agent by The Economics Times for four years. As a civil servant, he held various assignments within both the State and Central Governments. He won the Director's Gold Medal for the best Officer Trainee at the LBSNAA of his batch. Before joining the IAS in 1981 he served the IPS for a year. He earned his Master's Degree 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. During his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'.It is an aid to help them find their moral compass. This book is an attempt to contextualise a framework that will help civil servants make a learned decision in the face of the aforementioned questions. Coupled with political vendetta this spells the perfect recipe for disaster for them. What makes matters worse is the absence of any well-defined, legally tenable, and universally acceptable model code of conduct for officers that defines ethics. Even more unfortunate are those whose conscience never raises these questions. For some unlucky few, these questions may even bring forth a lifetime of torment. What is ethics? How important is ethics in the context of governance? What are the challenges that hinders an officer’s pursuit of ethical conduct? Does it pay to remain ethical while the unethical, seemingly, rules the roost? Is it worth paying the price of being ethical? These questions are but refrains of the thought process of every civil servant: new and seasoned.

NOT JUST A CIVIL SERVANT by Anil Swarup