Mission Karmayogi

Mission Karmayogi

What is Mission Karmayogi?
• Mission Karmayogi is the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) in India.
• It sets up a capacity building commission.
• Its aim is to develop an effective citizen-centric civil service
• It is about creating a civil service with domain and technological competencies.

Objectives:
• It is aimed at building a future-ready civil service with the right attitude, skills and knowledge, aligned to the vision of New India.
• It aims to prepare Indian civil servants for the future by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative, proactive, innovative, progressive, professional, energetic, transparent, and technologyenabled.
• Comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at the individual, institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery.

Need of the Mission:
• As the Indian economy grows, it will get more complex to govern; the governance capacities will have to be enhanced proportionately which this reform undertakes.
• There is a need to develop domain knowledge besides administrative capacity in the bureaucracy.
• There is a need to formalize the recruitment process and match the public service to a bureaucrat’s competence, so as to find the right person for the right job.
• The plan is to begin right at the recruitment level and then invest in building more capacity through the rest of their career.

About iGOT-Karmayogi Platform:
• The Karmyogi Programme will be delivered by setting up an Integrated Government Online Training (iGOT) Karmayogi Platform.
• iGOT-Karmayogi is a continuous online training platform, which would allow all government servants to undergo continuous training, depending on their domain areas.
• Courses from international universities will be made available on the platform for officers to take any time.

Significance of Mission Karmayogi:
• Earlier training programmes were focused on mostly first-class officers. Mission Karamyogi includes all categories of employees at central and state level and it also ensures Harmonization of Training Standards.
• The programme is guided by the “Whole Government” approach. Training resources are being shared across departments and silos are being broken.
• It facilitates cross sector learning by deputing officers in private sector to gain domain expertise and reduce friction between private-public sector in the future.

Conclusion
• The ultimate aim of Mission Karmayogi is to ensure “Ease of Living” for the common man, “Ease of Doing Business” and Citizen-Centricity that is reducing the gap between the government and the citizens.