The Union Cabinet on Wednesday announced Mission Karmayogi, an unique skill building programme for civil servants across the country. Mission Karmayogi, the government’s latest initiative, will help training the officers to meet the challenges of the society. Headed by the Prime Minister, a council will approve the capacity building plans for civil servants, the central government said.
Mission Karmayogi
Mission Karmayogi is a nationwide programme to lay the foundation for capacity building of civil servants, it will help the officers to learn about the best practices across the world. Officially called the “National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building”, the mission plans to transform human resource management in the country.
This scheme is based on the government’s vision on how a civil servant should be. A civil servant of today, in order to meet the challenges of the world, will have to be imaginative and innovative, proactive and polite, professional and progressive, energetic and enabling, transparent and tech enabled, and constructive and creative.
The six pillars of Mission Karmayogi:
- Policy Framework
- Institutional Framework
- Competency Framework
- Digital Learning Framework
- The electrical Human Resource Management System
- The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
The central government will set up a Capacity Building Commission to harmonise training standards. The commission will have shared faculty & resources. It will supervise all training institutions in the country, so that there’s common understanding of India’s aspirations & development goals. The schemes will be accessible for all, from section officers to secretaries. It will have two paths, self driven, where the official can choose the field of interest, and guided, where officials will be provided with the wherewithal to perform their jobs effectively.
Mandate of the HR Council
- Apex body driving and providing strategic direction to the program.
- Approves and monitors civil service capacity building plan.
- Reviews reports submitted by Capacity Building Commission.
Functions of Capacity Building Commission
- Suggest policy interventions in areas of HR reforms.
- Functional supervisory role over all central training institutions to harmonise training standards.
- To formulate mid-career training program for all services and to set norms for the same.
- Create shared learning resources including shared faculty and resource hubs.
- Prepare annual capacity building plan and seek approval from the PM HR Council.
- Prepare annual HR Report on the health of civil services and target achievements.
- Audit of human resources available in the government.
- Suggest standardisation of training and capacity building.
- Holding annual Global Public HR Summit.
