Background:-

In September 2020, Government of India has launched Mission Karmayogi a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCP). The programme aims at building a future-ready civil service with the right attitude, skills and knowledge, aligned to the vision of New India. It also 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. The Mission envisages a comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at the individual, institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery. This will be achieved through a Competency Framework for Civil Services that will be totally indigenous to India.In September 2020, Government of India has launched Mission Karmayogi a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCP). The programme aims at building a future-ready civil service with the right attitude, skills and knowledge, aligned to the vision of New India. It also 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. The Mission envisages a comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at the individual, institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery. This will be achieved through a Competency Framework for Civil Services that will be totally indigenous to India.

The Governance Structure:

i.Human Resource Council: NPCSCB will be governed by the Prime Minister’s Human Resource Council, which will also include State Chief Ministers, Union Cabinet Ministers, and experts. The council will approve and review civil services capacity building programmes.

ii.Cabinet Secretary Coordination Unit: It will comprise of select secretaries and cadre controlling authorise. /p>

iii.Capacity Building Commission (CBC): It will 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.

iv.Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV): This wholly-owned SPV will govern the iGOT-Karamayogi platform. The SPV will create and operationalize the content, marketplace and mange key business services of the iGOT platform, relating to content validation, independent proctored assessments and telemetry data availability.

v.Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: An Appropriate monitoring and evaluation framework will also be put in place for performance evaluation of all users of the iGOT platform so as to generate dashboard view of Key Performance Indicators.

Salient Features of Mission Karmayogi:-

vi.Tech-Aided: The capacity building will be delivered through iGOT Karmayogi Digital Platform, with content drawn from global best practices. The platform will act as a launch-pad for the NPCSCB.

vii.Shift from Rules to Roles: The programme will support a transition from “rules-based to roles-based” Human Resource Management (HRM) so that work of the post. Apart from domain knowledge training, the scheme will focus on “functional and behavioural competencies” as well, and also includes a monitoring framework for performance evaluations.

Salient Features of Mission Karmayogi:-

The FRACing process:-

Implementation of Mission Karmayogi first start with creating a dictionary of positions, roles and actives, and documenting their linkage to competencies, which enables ministries/ departments to build an accurate picture of the relationships and the full list of position, roles, activities and competencies (behavioural, domain and functional (BDF) relevant to them. The repository of roles, activities and competencies for each position in the government is expected to improve the understanding of an official to pursue a career path of his/ her choice and do well in the current one.

iGOT Karmayogi- Onboarding and enrolment for the courses:-

iGOT Karmayogi is an online learning platform being developed as an integral part of the Digital India stack for capacity building of all government employees. It will provide ‘anytime-anywhere-any device’ learning to train around 2.0 crores users which was so far unachievable through traditional measures. The platform is envisioned to evolve into a vibrant and world class marketplace for content modelled on FRACs.

iGOT Karmayogi platform presently hosts more than 300 courses under various broad themes such as Public administration, E-Governance, Public procurement process, GeM, Information & Communication Technology, Economics, Digital Governance, Law, Management and Emerging technologies etc

URL for iGOT Karmayogi portal: https://igotkarmayogi.gov.in/

Annual Capacity Building Plan (ACBP):-

Mission Karmayogi, or the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building, aims to bring comprehensive reform to the existing capacity building framework at both, the individual and organizational level for efficient public service delivery. To achieve this objective, the Capacity Building Commission (CBC) was constituted in April 2021. CBC aims to drive the standardization and harmonization of capacity building efforts across the Indian civil services landscape. One of the CBC’s key mandates is to support the creation of Annual Capacity Building Plans for all MDOs, by first identifying the capacity needs of the MDO, and then recommending suitable interventions to bridge the identified needs.