Mission Karmayogi approved by the Union Cabinet; See here highlights of NPCSCB

Mission Karmayogi approved by Union Cabinet. Read on to see the salient features of National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB).

Mission Karmayogi was approved by the Union Cabinet meeting held under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 2, 2020. Mission Karmayogi will usher a new era of Civil Service reforms in India.

Mission Karmayogi aims to shape the Indian Civil Services for future challenges by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled. It will empower them with specific role-competencies, the members of civil services will be able to ensure competent service delivery of the highest quality standards.

 Union Cabinet had approved a new National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). This programme will have the following institutional framework.

• Prime Minister’s Public Human Resources (HR) Council,
• Capacity Building Commission.
• Special Purpose Vehicle for owning and operating the digital assets and the technological platform for online training,
• Coordination Unit headed by the Cabinet Secretary.

It is seen that the civil servants after initial years of service become alienated from the Indian culture and loose contact with roots. The NPCSCB is thoughtfully designed to arrest these alienation tendencies of the civil servants while inculcating the best practices of the world’s best institutions. These objectives of the NPCSCB will be achieved by establishing an Integrated Government Online Training-iGOT Karmayogi platform. This iGOT Karmayogi platform will try to realize the following objective of the programme.

Capacity Building Commission

Capacity Building Commission(CBC) is proposed to be set up under the national programme. This commission will oversee the uniformity in managing and regulating the capacity building eco-system across the nation for the civil servants on a collaborative and co-sharing basis.

Following will be the specified role of the Capacity Building Commission (CBC) under the national programme.

• The CBC will assist the ‘PM Public Human Resources Council’ in ratifying the Annual Capacity Building Plans.
• The CBC will exercise the functional supervision over all Central Training Institutions dealing with civil services capacity building such as Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA).
• The prime role of the CBC will be to construct common learning resources, including internal and external faculty and resource centres.
• The CBC will supervise and coordinate with the stakeholder Department for the implementation of the Capacity Building Plans across the nation.
• The CBC will be the central point to make recommendations on standardization of training and capacity building, pedagogy and methods
• The CBC will set the norms for common mid-career training programs across all civil services, which include the All-India Services and the Central Civil Services.
• The CBC will suggest policy interventions required in the areas of HR Management and Capacity Building to the Government.

It was implied that the iGOT Krmayogi platform will bring the scale and the state-of-art infrastructure to augment the capacities of over two crore government officials in India. This platform will provide a carefully curated content for digital learning of the civil servants.

The iGOT platform will act as an umbrella platform and integrate the service matters like confirmation after probation period, deployment, work assignment and notification of vacancies etc.

The Official Communique said “Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare the Indian Civil Servants for the future by making him more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled. Empowered with specific role-competencies, the civil servant will be able to ensure efficient service delivery of the highest quality standards.”

 The following are the core guiding principles of the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building will be:

• To enable the shift from ‘Rules-based’ to ‘Roles based’ HR Management. It will align the work allocation to civil servants by matching their operational competencies to the requirements of the post,
• To emphasize on ‘on-site learning’ to complement the ‘off-site’ learning,
• To build an ecosystem of pooled training infrastructure including that of learning resources, institutions and personnel,
• To attune all Civil Service positions to a Framework of Roles, Activities and Competencies (FRACs) methodology and to build and deliver learning content relevant to the identified FRACs in all Government bodies,
• To provide all civil servants, a prospect to build and fortify their Behavioural, Functional and Domain Competencies in their self-driven and mandated learning paths.
• To enable all the Central Ministries and Departments and their Organizations to 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,
• To embark on data analytics regarding the data release provided by iGOT-Karmayogi pertaining to various facets of capacity building, content creation, user feedback and mapping of competencies and identifying the areas for policy reforms.

A Prime Minister’s Public Human Resources (HR) Council will be established comprising selected Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, eminent public HR practitioners, thinkers, global thought leaders and public service functionaries under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India. It will function as the apex body for deciding the strategic direction to Civil Services Reform and capacity building.

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