Mission Karmayogi (मिशन कर्मयोगी), 2023: Empowering India’s Bureaucracy for a Transformative Future

Mission Karmayogi (Mission, Functions, Pillars, IGOT Karmayogi,Gvot of India, DOPT, Salient Features, PSU, Central Govt, NPCSCB, UPSC, PIB)

Understanding Mission Karmayogi

The Indian government’s ambitious and revolutionary effort, Mission Karmayogi, aims to foster a bureaucracy that is prepared for the future and prioritizes the needs of its citizens. It is a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB), the objective aims to provide government workers with the abilities, information, and frame of mind required to handle the complex problems India will face in the twenty-first century. The main objective is to establish a future-ready, accountable bureaucracy that can significantly advance and develop the country. It Is a new experiment of its kind in the direction of capacity building. Through this mission, the government employees have to modernize their thinking, approach and improve their skills which will make them Karmayogi. Mission Karmayogi adopts a citizen-centric approach for civil service reforms.

The Mission, Vision & Key Functions of “ Mission Karmayogi”

Mission : Develop and maintain a comprehensive online platform to guide civil service officials in their competency- based capacity building journey by enabling online, face to face and blended learning facilitating discussions through topical forum, managing career paths and enabling reliable assessments that credibly signal competencies of officials.

Vision: To transform Indian civil services capacity building landscape by establishing a robust digital ecosystem enabling continuous anytime-anywhere learning to make the officials future ready.

Key Fuctions:-

1. Design, implement, enhance and manage the digital platform and infrastructure.
2. Manage and own the IPR of all assets created on behalf of Government
3. Create, buy, source internally, curate content and ensure validation of the content on iGOT-Karmayogi by the relevant parties
4. Manage and deliver proctored assessment services
5. Manage governance of telemetry data and make such data/ analysis available to identified authorities
6. Comply with relevant guidelines and regulations issued by Government or the Commission and conduct periodic quality checks for improvements
7. Make available robust grievance management mechanism for seamless operations
8. Manage procurement in compliance with relevant Government norms and guidelines
9. Provide all the relevant information to DoPT to enable it to respond to Parliamentary oversight, CAG oversight and effectively discharge its collaborative role vis-a-vis the NPCSCB

Six Key Pillars of Mission Karmayogi:

1. Policy Framework: New Training Policies with focus on Continuous Learning and driving Competencies.
2. Competency Framework: Shift from the Rule to Role with the indigenous competency framework
3. Institutional Framework: Oversight by PMHR Council (Prime Minister’s Human Resources Council which is an Apex Body to provide strategic direction to capacity building reforms)
4. IGOT Karmayogi : a comprehensive online platform to guide individual civil service officials in their capacity building journey. It is not merely a learning platform; it is a solutioning space that combines five functional hubs for online learning, competency management, career management, discussions, and networking. This will enable officials to deliver more effectively, eventually enhancing government execution capabilities. Through these hubs, the platform will enable online, face-to-face, and blended learning; facilitating discussions through topical forums, managing career paths, and enabling reliable assessments that credibly signal competencies of officials. While iGOT Karmayogi will bring the responsibility of learning to the learner, it will also provide tools through which Departments and managers can monitor and mentor officials. It will provide anytime-anywhere-any-device learning to train about 2 crores users which was hitherto not achievable through traditional measures.
   
   The platform is envisioned to evolve into a vibrant and world class marketplace for content modelled on FRACs, supported by a robust e-learning content industry. The content can be curated by individual government ministries or organizations in-house or through knowledge partners. Carefully crafted and vetted content from best-in-class institutions, universities, private content providers and individual resources will be made available as training modules. https://igotkarmayogi.gov.in/public/home.

• E-HRMS: DoPT (Department of Personnel and Training introduced the e-HRMS to facilitate a digital working environment, and streamline Human Resource services for Government employees. National Informatics Centre (NIC) is the technical partner of DoPT for designing, development and implementation of e-HRMS. Through e-HRMS, Government employees are accessing their service-related information. It has digitized HR processes in the Government of India, leading to several benefits for the government employees and increasing efficiency. e-HRMS will provide analytics to the Senior Administration in Policy formulation and implementation. https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/English-eHRMS%20brochure.pdf  Its first objective is to provide a generic, product based solution to the State/Central Government organisations for better management of personnel through electronic service record. It further assists the top management in knowing the exact number of employees, the retirement pattern, additional requirements in coming year for planning recruitments, funds required for retiring employees, re-allocation of surplus employees to other Departments/organisations within the State, ACR/ Property Return status, seniority lists etc. https://ehrms.nic.in/helpPdf/About%20eHRMS%2013-07-2018.pdf
• M&E (Monitoring & Evaluation): The iGOT -Karmayogi Platform will itself work as a monitoring and Evaluation platform as the same will not only connect the individual learner and the supervisor but also with all the peer groups, the content creator/provider and other stake holders. This will helps the government to gain data from all organisation, department and agencies which will help in curving the future road maps for human resource policies and building the Capacity.

Salient Features of Mission Karmayogi

1. A shift from the ‘Rule based’ HR Management policy to ‘Role Based’ policy by allocating a particular work to a Govt Servant based on their competency.
2. Shifting to ‘on-site’ learning from  ‘off-side’ which will help to widen the knowledge towards the ground reality. 
3. To establish a shared training infrastructure ecosystem that includes learning resources, organizations, and employees.
4. Segregating  the civil service position into a Framework of Roles, Activities and Competencies(FRAC) approach and to provide the learning content which are relevant to a particular FRAC.
5. To provide a path for continuous building and strengthening the behaviour, Functional and Domain Competencies for a Civil Servant in their self driven and mandated learning path.
6. To carter all the central ministries and Departments and their organizations for directly investing their resources so that a environment of co-creation and sharing the collaborative can be created by a ecosystem of learning through an annual financial subscription for every employee.
7. To encourage and partner with the best-in-class learning content creators including public training institutions, universities, start-tips and individual experts.

 Some of the Featured courses in Mission Karmayogi

1. Microsoft Word Beginners
2. Microsoft Excel for Beginners
3. Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR)
4. Introduction to Emerging Technologies
5. Noting and Drafting
6. Office Procedure
7. Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace.
8. Code of Conduct for Government Employees
9. Effective Communication
10. Public Procurement Framework of GOI
11. Right to Information Act
12.  Leave Rules
13. Self Leadership
14. Understanding Motivation
15. Stress Management

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