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Recently, the Government of India’s Mission Karmayogi programme to build civil service capacity received a $47 million boost from the World Bank.
Objectives and Need
- Civil services are at the centre of all government activities – they are agents of policymaking and the executive hand that delivers on the ground.
- The skill sets and capacity of the civil servants play a vital role in service delivery, program implementation and performing core governance functions.
- Recognizing this crucial responsibility, the Mission Karmayogi programme was launched.
- It is meant to reform Indian bureaucracy and prepare civil servants for the future.
About Mission Karmayogi
- It was launched in 2020 with the objective of enhancing governance through Civil Service Capacity Building.
- It aims “comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at individual, institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery”.
- It aims to prepare civil service officers for the future by making them more “creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled.’
- Focus
- on promoting ease of living and ease of doing business, by considerably enhancing the citizen-government interface.
- This involves creation of both functional and behavioural competencies among the civil servants.
- on promoting ease of living and ease of doing business, by considerably enhancing the citizen-government interface.
- Pillars
- Mission Karmayogi will have the following six pillars:
- Policy Framework,
- Institutional Framework,
- Competency Framework,
- Digital Learning Framework (Integrated Government Online Training Karmayogi Platform (iGOT-Karmayogi),
- electronic Human Resource Management System (e-HRMS), and
- Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.
- Mission Karmayogi will have the following six pillars:
- Coverage
- It will cover all civil servants (including contractual employees) across different ministries, departments, organisations and agencies of the Union Government.
- The willing state governments will also be enabled to align their capacity building plans on similar lines.
- Initiatives
- The mission has also created an online platform called iGOT-Karmayogi.
- iGOT stands for Integrated Government Online Training.
- It will provide content to learn from global best practices rooted in “Indian ethos”.
- Civil servants will also have to undertake courses on this platform on which the officers’ performance will be evaluated.
- A Special Purpose Vehicle will monitor the platform.
- The SPV will be a not-for-profit organisation under Section 8 of the Companies Act.
- A Special Purpose Vehicle will monitor the platform.
- Civil servants will also have to undertake courses on this platform on which the officers’ performance will be evaluated.
- The mission has also created an online platform called iGOT-Karmayogi.
- Significance
- It will improve human resource management practices among the officers.
- It will focus more on role based management. It will aim to allocate roles and jobs based on competencies of the officers.
Previous Efforts of Government
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Challenges /Issues
- The palpable lack of interest in existing civil services training programmes has troubled administrative reform committees over the decades
- Outdated rules and procedures that restrict the civil servant from performing effectively
- Lack of adequate transparency and accountability procedures
Conclusion and Way Forward
- Today, given India’s growth ambition, a massive scale-up in capacity-building is needed both at the political and bureaucratic levels.
- As democracies mature, elected representatives will play a more proactive role in policy making.
- It is, therefore, imperative that representatives are able to understand the nuances of policy making.
- The programme must build capability to envision the future and work towards realising it.
- It must equip the entire chain of command to coordinate and steer the ship towards a national goal.
- A forward-looking mindset that can quickly seize opportunities and foresee threats is critical.
- Capacity building must aim at building professionals in all domains, from technical experts to generalists.
- As policymaking gets more complex, respect for data and evidence-based decision making will gain importance.
- The existing institutions and educational centres, as well as the available expertise and knowledge base, can appropriately support training for various grades of civil servants.
Source:IE
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