Union Cabinet approves Mission Karmayogi for civil servants’ training needs

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 2

The central government has approved a proposal of the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) to launch Mission Karmayogi, a skill programme for civil servants with a focus more on the role of officials than the rules provided for them.

Announcing the decision of the Union cabinet, which held a meeting on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash javadekar said: “This is the biggest Human Resources Development reform in the government.”

A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) will be created under the Mission to provide all kinds of technological support for the training programmes, the Minister said, adding that the aim is to provide set of skills to civil servants to serve in the direction to ensure ease of living life for people in general and also ease of doing business in the country.

Later giving details to the Mission the Minister for DoPT, Jitendra Singh said at the top of the mission there will be an HR council, chaired by the Prime Minister, which will also comprise of select Union ministers and chief ministers. It will also have eminent thought leaders (noted academics and global leaders) and civil services leadership, he added.

Singh said, Mission Karmayogi focuses on individual (civil servants) and institutional capacity building and it will be accessible for all, from section officers to secretaries. “It will have two paths, self driven, where the official can choose field of interest, and guided, where official will be provided with the wherewithal to perform their jobs effectively,” he said.

“This scheme is based on the government’s vision on how a civil servant should be. A civil servant of today, in order to meet the challenges of the world, will have to be imaginative and innovative, proactive and polite, professional and progressive, energetic and enabling, transparent and tech enabled, and constructive and creative,” said DoPT secretary C Chandramouli, who gave a detailed presentation on the mission during the press briefing.