Published 16:01 IST, September 2nd 2020
Cabinet approves civil service reform 'Mission Karmayogi', more official languages for J&K
On Wednesday, the Union Cabinet approved an important civil service reform in the form of Mission Karmayogi and MoUs signed with Japan, Denmark, and Finland.
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On Wednesday, Union Cabinet approved a key civil service reform in form of Mission Karmayogi. dressing media, Union Information and Brocasting Minister Prakash Javekar stated that civil servants would get opportunity to improve ir performance on a continuous basis. He termed it as “biggest” human resource development programme.
He also revealed that Centre shall introduce Jammu and Kashmir Official Langus Bill 2020 in upcoming Parliament session. As per this legislation, Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, Hindi, and English will be official langus of Union Territory. Moreover, Cabinet also approved three MoUs- Textile Ministry and Japan for quality evaluation method, between Mining Ministry and Finland and between Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and Denmark.
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Union Minister Prakash Javekar remarked, “This is a post-recruitment reform where opportunity will be given to officers and employees to improve ir own performance on a continuous basis. This will be called as Karmayogi scheme. With this new reform, people will get efficient officers. re are many good officers but everyone can take benefit of this scheme and improve ir efficiency. This is biggest human resource development programme. We have decided to introduce in Parliament, Jammu and Kashmir Official Langus Bill 2020 in which 5 langus- Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, Hindi and English will be official langus. This has been done based on demand by people.”
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PMHRC to provide strategic direction
On this occasion, Personnel & Training Department Secretary C Chandramouli said that re were multiple impediments such as fragmented training landscape, evolution of silos at departmental level, inconsistencies in training priorities and competency and lack of lifelong and continuous learning. He explained that Mission Karmayogi shall create a new national infrastructure for civil services capacity building. This will ultimately result in ease of living, ease of business and citizen centricity.
This scheme has an outlay of Rs.500 crore over a period of 5 years. While PM’s HR Council (PMHRC) will provide strategic direction to capacity building reforms under chairmanship of Prime Minister, an expert body called Capacity Building Commission shall harmonise standard training standards. On or hand, Cabinet Secretariat Coordination Unit would oversee plans. A Special Purpose Vehicle will own and operate online platform iGOT Karmayogi to facilitate world-class learning. Furrmore, SPV shall charge Rs.431 annual subscription per civil servant.
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16:01 IST, September 2nd 2020