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Mission Karmayogi – National Program for Civil Services Capacity Building will radically improve the Human Resource management practices in the Government.

What is Mission Karmayogi

• It is a capacity building scheme for civil servants aimed at upgrading the post-recruitment training mechanism of the officers and employees at all levels.
• To prepare Civil Servants for the future by making them more creative, constructive & innovative through transparency and technology.
• It will use scale & state of the art infrastructure to augment the capacity of Civil Servants.
• iGOT platform will enable the transition to a role-based HR management & continuous learning.
  • The platform will act as a launchpad for the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB),
  • It will enable a comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at the individual, institutional and process levels.
  • NPCSCB will be governed by the Prime Minister’s Human Resource Council, which will also include state Chief Ministers, Union Cabinet ministers and experts.
  • This council will approve and review civil service capacity building programmes.
  • There will be a Cabinet Secretary Coordination Unit comprising of select secretaries and cadre controlling authorities.
  • Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), which will govern the iGOT-Karmayogi platform set up under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013.
  • An appropriate monitoring and evaluation framework will also be put in place for performance evaluation
• Capacity Building Commission
  • Include experts in related fields and global professionals. .
  • This commission will prepare and monitor annual capacity building plans and audit human resources available in the government.
• Employees in the government will get an opportunity to improve their performance under the Mission Karmayogi.
• About Funding
  • 46 lakh central employees, a sum of Rs 510.86 crore 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 $50 million.
• It will use state-of-the-art infrastructure to provide the capacity of civil servants.

Source : PIB

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GS II : Role of civil services in a democracy

Current Affairs Compilation : 02 September 2020