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MISSION KARMAYOGI
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16 DEC 2021 13:47 PM
(Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions)
December 16, 2021
“Mission Karmayogi is a new experiment of its kind in the direction of capacity building. Through this mission, the government employees have to modernize their thinking, approach and improve their skill set. It is to give them an opportunity to become a Karmayogi.”
-Prime Minister Narendra Modi
1. Introduction
- Mission Karmayogi is a scheme that exhorts the civil servant to maintain a very high standard of conduct and behaviour so that he earns the trust of the people and is emulated by his peers and subordinates.
- The spirit behind this scheme is the motto of the Civil Services enshrined in Bhagvad Gita as YogahKarmasuKaushalamwhich denotes :efficiency in action, signifies productive efficiency for producing maximum results.
2. Need for the Reform
- Civil Servants play a vital role in formulating policy and executing delivery at the cutting edge.
- However, the current civil services capacity building landscape was marred with the following challenges:
- Existing training policy interventions were sporadic and largely confined to individual and intermittent innovations
- Stereotyped working in silos or compartments, rather than an overall unifying vision and understanding of national priorities
- Lack of a lifelong and continuous learning environment for all civil servants
- Barriers to exchange of knowledge preventing collaborative working
- Moving from a Rules-Based to a Roles-Based HR Management System
- Raison d’etre of the Mission is assignment of right person for the right role at the right time.
3. Evolution of the Civil Services Reform Since 2014
To strengthen the interface of Government with the citizens, various citizen-centric initiatives have been undertaken since 2014:
- Moving ahead on ‘Trust the Citizen’ philosophy, self-attestation of documents was allowed.
- To remove discretion and promote merit, interview for Group B (Non-Gazetted) and Group C posts were discontinued.
- To make senior appointments broad-based and objective, multi-source 360-degree feedback was introduced.
- Lateral entry was introduced at senior levels to create the widest talent pool and induct sectoral experts.
- To create synergies between policy design and implementation, Assistant Secretary Programme was introduced in 2015, directly connecting central government departments to administrative sub-division in the field.
- To enhance governance through civil services capacity building, path-breaking exercise Aarambh conducted at Statue of Unity, Kevadia on RashtriyaEkta Divas in 2019, and it was followed up with a unique virtual Aarambh in October 2020.
- National Recruitment Agency (NRA) set up in August 2020 to introduce common entrance test, obviating the need for multiple entrance tests for the citizen, saving her time and cost.
4. Citizen Centric and Future Ready Civil Services
5. Vision behind Mission Karmayogi
- It will enable officials to pursue anytime-anyplace-anydevice learning at their own convenience, using self-directed or guided learning paths, enabling continuous learning for all
- It will provide officials with access to instant guidance at the point of need, through job specific learning resources and collaboration with officials who “have done it before”
- It will empower an official with tool to take charge of one’s own professional learning journey, making officials accountable for their own career trajectory.
6. Programme Approach: Six Pillars of Mission Karmayogi
- Policy Framework- New Training Policies with focus on continuous learning and driving competencies.
- Competency Framework-Shift from Rule to Role with the indigenous competency framework.
- Institutional Framework- Oversight by PMHR Council
- iGOT Karmyogi- Large scale comprehensive learning platform
- E-HRMS- Strategic HR Management
- Monitoring and Evaluation Framework- Continuous performance analysis, data driven goal-setting and real time monitoring
7. Salient Features
- Aligning work allocation of civil servants by matching their competencies to the requirements of the posts, such that transition from ‘Rule based’ to ‘Role based’ HR Management is smoothly attained
- To emphasize on ‘on-site’ learning to complement the ‘off-site’ learning
- To create an ecosystem of shared training infrastructure including that of learning materials, institutions and personnel
- To calibrate all Civil Service positions to a Framework of Roles, Activities and Competencies (FRAC) approach and to create and deliver learning content relevant to the identified FRAC in every Government entity
- To make available to all civil servants, an opportunity to continuously build and strengthen their Behavioural, Functional and Domain Competencies in their self-driven and mandated learning paths
- To enable all Central Ministries and Departments and their Organization 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
- To encourage and partner with the best-in-class learning content creators including public training institutions, universities, start-tips and individual experts.
8. Institutional Framework of Mission Karmayogi
- Prime Minister's Human Resources Council (PMHRC)- Apex Body to provide strategic direction to capacity building reforms.
- Cabinet Secretariat Coordination Unit- to monitor progress and execution and oversee plans.
- Capacity Building Commission- to harmonize training standards, create shared faculty & resources and supervise Central Training Institutions.
- Karmayogi Bharat Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)- To own and operate the online platform-iGOTKarmayogi and facilitate world class learning.
9. Timeline
- 2014- Launch of DoPT Competency Framework
- 2017- Launch of COMMIT (Comprehensive Online Modified Module on Induction Training for Sub-district level frontline functionaries)
- 2018- Launch of iGOT Learning Platform
- 2019- Launch of first version of Aarambh
- 2020- Launch of Mission Karmayogi
10. Action Plan 2021-23
11. Impact Attained- COVID Phase
DoPT collaborated with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and an online learning platform‘iGOT-COVID’was launched on 7 May 2020. The platform was the second line of defence (volunteers from the NCC, NSS, NYKS and Ex-Servicemen) with tailored learning content targeting various segments of COVID warriors.
- Over a period of six months, more than 13 lakh COVID warriors were trained on the platform
- 29.1 Lakh Course enrolments
- 19.1 Lakh Course completions
- 15.1 Lakh Certificates issued
12. Impact Expected
While Mission Karmayogi will directly benefit about 1.50 crore government officials in the long run, significantly more beneficiaries will be positively impacted, with the programme amplifying impact on millions of citizens who get empowered by the civil service.
13. Way Forward
- A Global Leader- Largest capacity building programme in the world, which will cover 46 lakh employees at the centre, and eventually 1.50 crore government officials across centre, states and local bodies.
- Better on-Time Service Delivery- Citizen will be assured that her priorities are being managed by an official best trained to do so. This will significantly improve public satisfaction and eliminate grievances.
- Citizen delight, improve sentiment- Programme for strengthening behavioural competencies of civil servants, especially for those at the cutting-edge level, especially where the citizen interacts with a public official, will provide a pleasant and hassle-free experience to the citizen.
- Accountability and Transparency by Design- The outcomes of the capacity-building efforts will be appraised by the HR Council Chaired by the Prime Minister and shared with the citizens through comprehensive annual reports.
- Local Problem; Global View- The focus of the programme on global learning with Indian values will enable officials to design and develop solutions for local problems using the best available knowledge.
Source: PIB E-Booklet on Mission Karmayogi
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