He is known for his paperless style of working.
For Swarup, the job would not be just challenging but also tricky, given the negativity attached to the sector.
'A man who brought about the greatest set of economic reforms in the country, who changed the course of Indian history, cannot be considered weak.' 'A man who fought for nuclear reforms even though his majority in Parliament was threatened, he cannot be considered weak.'
A committee headed by Anil Swarup has been appointed to re-start 215 large projects worth over Rs 7 lakh crore that have been stalled for various reasons, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
There has been no leak outside India, hence no re-examination will be held outside the country, he said.
Over 50 million subscribers of the retirement fund body EPFO will be able to apply online for transfer and withdrawal of their provident fund from July 1, a move aimed at speedy settlement of claims.
The Prime Minister's Project Monitoring Group (PMG) chairman Anil Swarup said 40 per cent of the 419 stalled large investment projects in his hand were struck due to environmental clearances.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation's apex decision making body, the Central Board of Trustee on February 25 had decided to pay 8.5 per cent rate of interest to subscribers for 2012-13.
Nearly 340 projects worth Rs 10 lakh crore are presently stuck.
The states will get over Rs l lakh crore.
'They will be able to ride over this immediate crisis and carry on, but they need to take corrective steps and these will have to be long term measures which must include working closely with state governments.'
Bureaucrats heading disinvestment and financial services usually don't get appointed as finance secretary.
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While 44 per cent of the problems relate to environmental issues, 60-65 per cent under the PMG radar are coal-fired thermal power projects mostly awaiting coal linkages.
India will allow locally registered foreign firms to mine and sell coal when commercial mining is permitted as part of the opening up of the nationalised industry after four decades, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup told Reuters.
Jindal Steel and Balco emerged as the top bidders.
Reliance Capital Asset Management Company (RCAM) and ICICI Securities Primary Dealership have been selected to manage Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) provident fund corpus of coal industry workers.
The government has garnered Rs 2 lakh crore by auctioning 33 blocks.
Anil Swarup, who conceived the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana -- a scheme the United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organisation recognised as among the finest -- speaks to Anjuli Bhargava.
India plans to double coal production by 2020
Of these 36 coal blocks, one mine will be given to the steel sector while the rest will be given to the power sector.
Government wants to increase coal production so that it can meet the ever increasing coal demand.
Coal Secretary Anil Swarup has been appointed as school education secretary.
Girls outperformed boys with a pass percentage of 88.67 as opposed to 85.32.
Over the past six months Rajasthan has introduced some of India's most radical free-market labour, land and welfare reform.
Incidents like these are a wake-up call, says School Education Secretary Anil Swarup. 'Today, if a particular problem has been found, technology allows solutions to address it,' he says, suggesting alternatives such as printing and distribution of encrypted question papers on the day of the exam. Swarup wants electronic tracking to keep tab on who has access to and can, therefore, leak papers.
Jindal Power bagged 2 coal mines in Chhattisgarh.
in the first lot 74 blocks will be auctioned, but the number of mines a company can bid will be capped to avoid monopoly.
'Visibly there is a posturing that everything is fine. That creates a bit of a problem.'
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JSPL and Balco had emerged as the highest bidders in the recently concluded auctions.
Hindalco Industries won Dumri mine in Jharkhand
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasising the need to kick-start investment in the country, the project monitoring group (PMG) under the Cabinet Secretariat has asked various government departments to start monitoring projects for which clearances have been facilitated through this mechanism.
Adani Power bagged Jitpur mine in Jharkhand.
On his PIL, the SC had in 2013 directed the Centre and the states to set up a Civil Services Board to decide on transfers of officers.
'Whether it will create an impact or not, only time will tell.'
Labour unions, with a history of hostility towards management, are pushing back on Coal India's plans, fearing modernization and outsourcing will hit jobs.
The e-auction is seeing aggressive bidding.
Two cases have been registered in the paper leak incident so far. The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has questioned nearly 60 people, including students and tutors, in this connection.
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But critics caution that over-centralisation can lead to new bottlenecks
Power stations with captive mines might look at this as an opportunity to sell merchant power at higher rates.
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