– Aditya Hore
NEW DELHI, Sept 2: The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the “Mission Karmayogi,” a national programme to lay the foundation for “Civil Services Capacity Building” to keep them entrenched in Indian culture while they learn from best practices across the world.
An official spokesman of the union government said, “The Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare Indian civil servants for the future by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative, proactive, innovative, progressive, professional, energetic, transparent and technology enabled.”
A council headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would help approve civil services capacity building plans under the Mission Karmayogi which would focus on individual civil servants and institutional capacity building, the spokesman said.
The Prime Minister’s HR Council would be at the top and under his chairmanship national and international experts would be assigned the tasks. “The Mission Karmayogi scheme will be the biggest Human Resource development programme of the government,” the spokesman said.
“Mission Karmayogi is constituted to build future-ready civil service with right attitude, skills & knowledge, aligned to the vision of New India. It focuses on competency led capacity building,” said C Chandramouli, Secretary Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions.
“At present, there is a diverse and fragmented training landscape. There are inconsistencies in training priorities by various training institutions in various ministries, this has prevented shared understanding of India’s developmental aspirations,” he added.
He said a capacity building commission would be set up which would harmonize training standards, create shared faculty and resources and would have a supervisory role over all training institutions so that there was common understanding of India’s aspirations and development goals.
Union Minister of State for personnel Jitendra Singh said the “Mission Karmayogi” was an “endeavour to reincarnate a government servant into an ideal karma yogi to serve the nation. It will provide a mechanism for continuous capacity building and constant updating of talent pool”.
“Earlier it was rule-specific, now it will be role-specific. There is now an institutionalised capacity building. Working of departments in silos is eliminated, training opportunities available for all,” added Singh.
According to the details available, the programme will prescribe and monitor annual capacity building plans for all departments and services. The digital learning framework (IGOT-Karmayogi Platform) will provide anytime-anywhere learning to 2.5 crore civil servants.
The cabinet also approved three Memoranda of Understanding, (MoUs) including one between the textile ministry and Japan for quality evaluation methods.
Briefing media on the cabinet decisions, the information minister Prakash Javadekar said the two other MoUs approved included one between the Mining Ministry and Finland, and another between the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and Denmark.
The Cabinet also approved the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020, he said.
