Mission Karmayogi

26-12-2023

Mission Karmayogi

Why in the news? 

On the occasion of Good Governance Day, the Union Minister  launched the Extended Version of Mission Karmayogi, at a function in New Delhi.

Key Points

• The Union Minister also launched a new blended learning programme named VIKAS (Variable & Immersive Karmayogi Advanced Support).     
• Mission Karmayogi focuses on grooming civil servants of the future by making them more technology-enabled, innovative, progressive and transparent.
• The Union Government has been celebrating nationwide 'Good Governance Week/Day' since 2014 in honour of our beloved former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee to promote citizen-centric, efficient and transparent governance and improve service delivery.    

 What is a Mission Karmayogi?

• Mission Karmayogi was launched on September 20, 2020 by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet.
• Mission Karmayogi - National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) – is meant to reform Indian bureaucracy and prepare civil servants for the future.
• The programme aims “comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at individual, institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery”.
• The mission aims to prepare civil service officers for the future by making them more “creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled.'

 How will it help?

• The programme will try to improve human resource management practices among the officers.
• It will focus more on role based management.
• It will aim to allocate roles and jobs based on competencies of the officers.
•  The mission has also created an online platform called iGOT-Karmayogi.
• iGOT stands for Integrated Government Online Training. This platform will provide content to learn from global best practices rooted in “Indian ethos”.
• Civil servants will also have to undertake courses on this platform on which the officers’ performance will be evaluated.
•  A Special Purpose Vehicle will monitor the platform.
• The SPV will be a not-for-profit organization under Section 8 of the Companies Act.

Who will manage Mission Karmayogi?

A Public Human Resource Council under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister will manage the mission.

The other members of this council are:

1. Union Ministers

2. Chief Ministers

3. Eminent public HR practitioners

4. Thinkers

5. Public service functionaries

6. Global thought leaders

Budget for the mission

• The mission will cover around 4.6 million central employees.
• A sum of Rs 510.86 crore has been allocated to be spent over a period of 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
• It will be partly funded by multilateral assistance up to $50 million.

New features launched on Mission Karmayogi platform:

• My iGOT delivers targeted training courses on home page of individual officer that directly address the unique capacity building needs of  the officer as identified  in the Capacity-Building Plan for their Ministries/Departments thereby facilitating  a highly personalized, focused and targeted capacity-building experience thereby ensuring a perfect fit between the individual and organizational learning needs.

○More than 28 lakh users have boarded the platform till now with about 830 high quality e-learning courses being made available on the platform.

• Blended Programs on iGOT-Karmayogi platform will facilitate equitable access to training methodologies across all levels to meet dynamic training needs of the officials. 

○Blended Programs integrate traditional offline (in person) classroom courses with online learning components.

○ It enables officers and faculty to leverage the flexibility and convenience of online courses while retaining the invaluable benefits of face-to-face classroom interactions.

• Curated Programs on iGOT Karmayogi are designed to cater to diverse learning needs of the Ministries  Departments and Training Institutions.

○The Course Providers will be able to curate relevant content, resources, and assessments from the repository of iGOT with a Programmatic approach to provide a tailored learning journey.

• 12 domain specific capacity building e-learning courses have been developed in a span of two months as part of Annual Capacity Building Plan (ACBP) of the DOPT by Karmayogi Digital Learning Lab (KDLL) of DoPT.

○KDLL was inaugurated by Dr Jitendra Singh in August 2021 to develop e-learning courses to build the capacity of the civil servants.

○ Annual Capacity Building Plan for DoPT was launched on 27th Sept. 2023 by Dr Jitendra Singh.

○  These 12 courses will not only directly address the domain competency requirements of the Civil Servants working in DoPT, but also help the other Government organisations in handling the functional matters on a day to day basis in an effective manner.

• VIKAS (Variable & Immersive Karmayogi Advanced Support) is a new blended learning programme meant for capacity building of Middle management civil servants in the Central Secretariat.

○VIKAS is a blended programme with iGOT consisting of 33 hours complemented by 30 hours of offline training at ISTM which focuses on development of functional, behavioural and technological competencies required in Central Government.

                                                            Source:PIB