Anugraha Narayan Tiwari

Who is Anugraha Narayan Tiwari?

Anugraha Narayan Tiwari, A.N. Tiwari has been an Indian Civil Servant for 44 years with wide and deep experience in governance, public administration and infrastructure development and its policy making. He has served at the highest levels of the Indian Government and was the decision and policy maker for many government departments at the National and State levels. Mr. Tiwari was also instrumental in implementing and designing many schemes relating to the Union Government relating to various departments he headed.

He supervised and controlled vigilance and anti-corruption work for the Union government and implemented many policies that have brought in transparency and good governance in the government.

Has studied democracy and democratic institutions and, matters relating to governance and civil service as an academic subject as well as practically. Was instrumentally involved in administrative reforms and the work of the Administrative Reforms Commission with the Prime Minister of India. Active in promoting transparency in the administrative set-up as part of the reforms process which finally led to the drafting and implementation of the Right to Information Act.