Cabinet Decision
“Personnel & Training”
02.09.2020
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Cabinet approves "Mission Karmayogi"- National
Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)
New National Architecture for Civil Services
Capacity Building
Comprehensive reform of the capacity building
apparatus at individual,
institutional and process levels for efficient
public service delivery
PM led HR Council to approve and monitor Civil
Service Capacity Building Plans
Capacity Building Commission to harmonize training standards, create
shared faculty and resources, and have
supervisory role over all Central
Training Institutions
Wholly owned SPV to own and operate the online
learning platform and
facilitate world-class learning content
market-place.
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra
Modi has approved launching of a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) with the following institutional
framework:-
(i) Prime Minister's Public Human Resources
(HR) Council,
(ii) Capacity Building Commission.
(iii) Special Purpose Vehicle for owning and
operating the digital assets
and the technological platform
for online training,
Karmayogi pertaining
to various aspects
of capacity building, content
creation, user feedback and mapping of
competencies and identify
areas for policy reforms.
(iv) Coordination Unit headed by the Cabinet
Secretary.
Salient Features
NPCSCB has been carefully designed
to lay the foundations for capacity building for Civil Servants so that they
remain entrenched in Indian Culture and sensibilities and remain connected,
with their roots, while they learn from the best institutions and practices
across the world. The Programme will be delivered by setting up an Integrated Government Online Training-iGOT
Karmayogi Platform. The core guiding
principles of the Programme will be:
1. Supporting
Transition from 'Rules based' to 'Roles based* HR Management. Aligning work
allocation of civil servants by matching their competencies to the requirements
of the post.
2. To
emphasize on 'on-site learning' to complement the ‘off-site’ learning,
3. To
create an ecosystem of shared training infrastructure including that of
learning materials, institutions and personnel,
4. To
calibrate all Civil Service positions to a Framework
of Roles, Activities and Competencies (FRACs) approach and to create and
deliver learning content relevant to the identified FRACs in every Government
entity,
5. To
make available to all civil servants, an opportunity to continuously build and
strengthen their Behavioral, Functional
and Domain Competencies in their self-driven and mandated learning paths.
6. To
enable all the Central Ministries and Departments and their Organizations to directly invest their resources towards
co-creation and sharing the
collaborative and common ecosystem of learning through an annual financial
subscription for every employee,
7. To
encourage and partner with the best-in-class learning content creators
including public training institutions, universities, start-tips and individual
experts,
8. To undertake data analytics in respect of data
emit provided by iGOT-
Objectives
It is also
proposed to set up a Capacity Building
Commission, with a view to ensure a uniform approach in managing and
regulating the capacity building ecosystem on collaborative and co-sharing
basis.
The role of Commission will be as under-
? 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.
iGOT-Karmayogi platform 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
where 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.
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. Empowered
with specific role-competencies, the civil servant will be able to ensure
efficient service delivery of the highest quality standards.
Financial implications
To cover around 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 USD 50 million. A wholly owned Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for NPCSCB
will be set up under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. The SPV will be a
"not-for-profit" company and will own and manage iGOT-Karmayogi platform. The SPV will create and operationalize the
content, market place and manage key business services of iGOT-Karmayogi platform, relating to content validation,
independent proctored assessments and telemetry data availability. The SPV will
own all Intellectual Property Rights on behalf of the Government of India. An
appropriate monitoring and evaluation
framework will also be put in place for performance evaluation of all users
of the iGOT-Karmayogi platform so as
to generate a dashboard view of Key Performance Indicators.
Background
Capacity of Civil Services plays a
vital role in rendering a wide variety of services, implementing welfare
programs and performing core governance functions. A transformational change in
Civil Service Capacity is proposed to be affected by organically linking the
transformation of work culture, strengthening public institutions and adopting
modern technology to build civil service capacity with the overall aim of ensuring efficient delivery of services to
citizens.
A
Public Human Resources Council comprising of select Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, eminent
public HR practitioners, thinkers, global thought leaders and Public Service
functionaries under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble Prime Minister will serve as
the apex body for providing strategic direction to the task of Civil Services
Reform and capacity building.
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