Mission Karmayogi is the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). It is a reform in Indian Bureaucracy. Union Cabinet launched it on 2nd September 2020 The mission intends to lay down the foundations for the Indian civil servants’ capacity building and aims to enhance governance. This article will provide you with the relevant details about the mission for the IAS Exam.

Important Facts about Mission Karmayogi

• It is launched by Union Cabinet
• It aims to establish the new national architecture for civil services capacity building at individual, institutional and process levels
• It will cover around 46 lakh central employees between 2020-2025.
• A special purpose vehicle (SPV) (non-profit company) is set up under the Companies Act 2013 to run this mission.
• This SPV will manage i-GOT Karmayogi which is the online training digital platform

Salient Features of Mission Karmayogi

Mission Karmayogi is a step towards improved human resource management practices in the government. It has the following features:

1. The transition from Rules Based to Roles Based Human Resource (HR) Management – The focus is to allocate jobs to the civil servants based on their competencies.
2. On-Site Learning to complement Off-Site Learning – It is a training given to the civil servants on-site.
3. An ecosystem of shared training infrastructure – Civil servants to adapt to an ecosystem of shared learning materials, institutions and personnel.
4. Framework of Roles, Activities and Competencies (FRACs) approach – All civil services positions to be calibrated under this approach. Also based on this approach, all learning content will be created and delivered to every single government entity.
5. Behavioural, Functional and Domain Competencies – Civil Servants to build their competencies in their self-driven and mandated learning paths.
6. Co-creation of the common ecosystem by all the Central Ministries, Departments and their organizations – This is a way to create an ecosystem of learning through an annual financial subscription for every employee.
7. Partnership with learning content creators – Public training institutions, universities, start-tips and individual experts will be enabled to be a part of this capacity-building measure.

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What is iGOT-Karmayogi?

• It is an Integrated Government Online Training digital platform under the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD). which will deliver capacity building programmes by drawing content from global best practices rooted in Indian national ethos.
• It will enable a comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at the individual, institutional and process levels.
• Civil servants will have to take online courses and they will be evaluated based on their courses, their performances in each course they have taken spreading across their span of services.
• All digital e-learning courses of world-class content will be uploaded on this platform for civil servants.
• Along with the online courses, services like confirmation after probation period, deployment, work assignment and notification of vacancies etc would also be integrated on the platform.

Six Pillar of Mission Karmayogi

Mission Karmayogi has the following six pillars:

1. Policy Framework
2. Institutional Framework
3. Competency Framework
4. Digital Learning Framework
5. Electronic Human Resource Management System (e-HRMS)
6. Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

Idea Behind Mission Karmayogi

Civil services form the backbone of the Indian administration. Any reform taken to enhance the capacity building of the civil services is an important step towards better governance.

Steps to be taken to build the capacity of civil services:

1. Linking the transformation of work culture
2. Strengthening public institutions
3. Adoption of modern technology

Apex Body of the Mission Karmayogi

The Public Human Resource Council under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India will be the apex body of the Mission Karmayogi. The other members of this council will include:

1. Union Ministers
2. Chief Ministers
3. Eminent public HR practitioners
4. Thinkers
5. Global thought leaders and
6. Public Service functionaries

Institutional Framework of Mission Karmayogi

These following institutions will help in implementing the Mission Karmayogi:

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

What are the objectives of the Capacity Building Commission under Mission Karmayogi?

1. It will assist the Public Human Resource Council
2. It will supervise all central training institutions which are enabled for civil services capacity building
3. It will create external faculty and resource centres.
4. It will assist stakeholder departments in the implementation of the capacity building programmes.
5. It will put forth recommendations on the standardization of the training and capacity building, pedagogy and methodology
6. It will suggest policy interventions related to the HR practises in the government.

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