Mission Karmayogi: A Scheme for Reforms in Civil Services

On 2nd September 2020, The Union Cabinet approved Mission Karmayogi, a scheme for bringing post-recruitment reforms in Civil Services.

Announcing the Cabinet decision, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said the scheme was meant to be a comprehensive post-recruitment reform of the Centre’s human resource development, in much the same way as the National Recruitment Agency approved last week is pre-recruitment reform.

What is Mission Karmayogi?

Mission Karmayogi is a nationwide programme to lay the foundation for capacity building of civil servants so they remain entrenched in Indian culture while they learn the best practices across the world. It is also known as National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) with following institutional framework:

  • Public Human Resource Council headed by the Prime Minister
  • Capacity Building Commission
  • Coordination Unit headed by the Cabinet secretary
  • Special Purpose Vehicle to own and operate digital assets
  • Coordination unit headed by a cabinet secretary

Objective of Mission Karmayogi:

Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare the Indian Civil Servant for the future by making him more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled.

Empowered with specific role-competencies, the civil servant will be able to ensure efficient service delivery of the highest quality standards.

It is also proposed to set up a Capacity Building Commission, with a view to ensure a uniform approach in managing and regulating the capacity building ecosystem on collaborative and co-sharing basis.

 Silent/Key Features of Mission Karmayogi:

NPCSCB has been carefully designed to lay the foundations for capacity building for Civil Servants so that they remain entrenched in Indian Culture and sensibilities and remain connected, with their roots, while they learn from the best institutions and practices across the world. The Programme will be delivered by setting up an Integrated Government Online Training-iGOT-Karmayogi Platform. The main key principles of the Programme will be:

  1. Support Transition from ‘Rules based’ to ‘Roles based* HR Management.
  2. To emphasize on ‘on-site learning’
  3. To create an ecosystem of shared training infrastructure
  4. To calibrate all Civil Service positions to a Framework of Roles, Activities and Competencies (FRACs) approach
  5. To make available to all civil servants, an opportunity to continuously build and strengthen their Behavioral, Functional and Domain Competencies in their self-driven and mandated learning paths.
  6. To enable all the Central Ministries and Departments and their Organizations to directly invest their resources towards co-creation and sharing the collaborative and common ecosystem of learning through an annual financial subscription for every employee,
  7. To encourage and partner with the best-in-class learning content creators including public training institutions, universities, start-tips and individual experts,
  8. To undertake data analytics in respect of data emit provided by iGOT- Karmayogi pertaining to various aspects of capacity building, content creation, user feedback and mapping of competencies and identify areas for policy reforms.

Financial Implications:

 This scheme will cover around 46 lakh Central employees and government has allotted a sum of Rs.510.86 crore which will be spent over a period of 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The expenditure is partly funded by multilateral assistance to the tune of USD 50 million

An appropriate monitoring and evaluation framework will also be put in place for performance evaluation of all users of the iGOT-Karmayogi platform so as to generate a dashboard view of Key Performance Indicators.

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