“Mission Karmayogi” for Civil Servants across the country is approved by Union Cabinet

National capacity building and performance evaluation program for civil servants

• Union Cabinet has given approval for Mission Karmayogi, a new national
  capacity building and performance evaluation program for civil servants
• The scheme will cover 46 lakh Central government employees at all levels, and
  involve an outlay of ₹510 crore over a five-year period
• The program was designed to lay foundations for capacity building of civil
  servants

Major functions of Mission Karmayogi

• It will lay the foundation for capacity building for civil servants so that they
  remained entrenched in Indian culture, while they learn from best practices
  across the world
• It aims to prepare Indian civil servants for the future by making them more
  creative, constructive, imaginative, proactive, innovative, progressive,
  professional, energetic, and transparent and technology enabled
• The Karmayogi scheme will be the biggest Human Resource development
  program of the government
• A civil servant should be imaginative & innovative, proactive & polite,
  professional & progressive, energetic & enabling, transparent & tech-enabled,
  constructive & creative in order to meet the challenges of the society

Setting up of “Capacity building commission”

• A capacity building commission will be set up which will harmonize training
  standards, create shared faculty and resources and will have a supervisory role
  over all training institutions so that there is common understanding of India’s
  aspirations and development goals
• A council headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help approve civil
  services capacity building plans under Mission Karmayogi
• Capacity Building Commission to harmonize training standards, create shared
  faculty, resources, and have a supervisory role over all central training
  institutions
• A wholly government owned, not-for-profit special purpose vehicle will be set up
  to own and operate the digital platform and its content
• The program will support a transition from “rules-based to roles-based” HR
  management, so that work allocations can be done by matching an official’s
  competencies to the requirements of the post

Goals of the Mission

• To emphasize on on-site learning
• To support transition from “rules based” to “roles based” human resource
  management
• To create an ecosystem of shared training infrastructure
• To calibrate civil service positions
• To make opportunities available to the civil servants to build and strengthen
  their Behavioral and Functional Domain Competencies
• To enable several departments of Government operating under different
  ministries to invest in their resources to co-create and share common
  ecosystem
• The ecosystem shall be collaborative and aid in learning through annual
  financial subscription for every employee
• To partner with best best-in class content creators
• This includes start ups, universities, public training institutions and individual
  experts

Funds for the Mission

• The scheme is to cover 46 lakh central government employees. Thus, the
  Government has estimated the required funds as Rs 510.86 crores
• The scheme is to be implemented between 2020-21 and 2024-25
• Also, an evaluation platform is to be put in place to monitor the success of the
  scheme

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