The Cabinet on Wednesday approved Mission Karmayogi, a national programme for civil services capacity building, to lay the foundation for capacity building of civil servants so they remain entrenched in Indian culture while they learn from best practices across the world. 

The mission will focus on individual (civil servants) and institutional capacity building. “A PM’s HR Council will head the mission along with national and international experts under the chairmanship of PM,” said C Chandramouli, secretary, department of personnel & training.

The aim is to prepare Indian Civil Servants for future by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled.

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“Today the Union Cabinet under Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to bring this very big, post-recruitment reform, where an opportunity will be given to officers and employees to improve their own performance,” said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar.

Javadekar said this is the biggest human resource development programme in the government.

“Mission Karmayogi is an endeavour to reincarnate a government servant into an ideal karmayogi to serve the nation by enabling him to be creative, to be constructive, to be pro-active and technically empowered,” Jitender Singh told reporters.

“The endeavour is also to end the culture of working in silos and to overcome the multiplicity of training curriculum which we have because of the institutions spread all over the country, with the introduction of a common platform for uniform realisation of nation’s vision and of our shared aspiration and our shared future goals,” he said.

This way, Singh said, it will provide a mechanism for continuous capacity building, a constant updating of the talent pool and also provide an equal opportunity of professional as well as personal growth and a stream of self training for value addition at all levels.

He said the mission will have a total outlay of Rs 510 crore over a period of five years.