Mission Karmayogi

Mission Karmayogi  – the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). 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.

Features:

• The mission ‘Karmayogi’, government officials, and employees will get a chance to improve their performance.
• A council headed by the Prime Minister was approved for civil service capacity building schemes under Mission Karmayogi.
• The Chief Minister will be a member of this council.
• This will help in ending the individualized assessment of the employees and ensure their scientific and objective evaluation in a timely manner.
• 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,

Institutional framework and implementation of the program:

Principles of the program:

• Strengthen common foundations and remove department silos.
• Demonstrate learning to cover all categories.
• Setting an annual capacity building plan for all departments and services
• Will ensure efficient service deliveryPromote technology-inspired learning pedagogy
• Monitoring the implementation of the capacity building plan.
• Setting benchmarks in learning for public servants

iGOT Karmayogi Platform:

• It brings the scale and state-of-the-art infrastructure to augment the capacities of over two crore officials in India.
• The platform is expected to evolve into a vibrant and world-class market place for content were carefully curated and vetted digital e-learning material will be made available.
•  Besides capacity building, service matters like confirmation after probation period, deployment, work assignment and notification of vacancies etc. would eventually be integrated with the proposed competency framework.

Objectives:

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

Functions:

• To assist the PM Public Human Resources Council in approving the Annual Capacity Building Plans.
• To exercise functional supervision over all Central Training Institutions dealing with civil services capacity building.
• To create shared learning resources, including internal and external faculty and resource centers.
• To coordinate and supervise the implementation of the Capacity Building Plans with the stakeholder Departments.
• To make recommendations on standardization of training and capacity building, pedagogy and methodology
• To set norms for common mid-career training programs across all civil services.
• To suggest policy interventions required in the areas of HR Management and Capacity Building to the Government.

Challenges:

• There is a tendency in the Bureaucracy to resist the change which challenges their status quo.
•  online courses must not become another opportunity for the officers to go for the sabbatical leaves.

This Mission is an effort to develop karmayogi government employees to serve the country as an ideal karmayogi so that they can be creative and creative and technically empowered.

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