World Bank approved $47 million program for India’s Mission Karmayogi program.

Recent Context:

• The World Bank has approved a USD 47 million projects to support the Government of India’s Mission Karmayogi, a national program to build civil service capacity. There are nearly 18 million civil servants employed across India, with approximately two-thirds at the state government and local authority levels.
• The Bank’s financing aims to support the Government’s objectives of enhancing the functional and behavioural competencies of approximately four million civil servants. It will focus on three components: the development and implementation of competency frameworks; the development of an integrated learning platform; and program monitoring, evaluation, and management.

About Mission Karmayogi: : National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)

Launch Year: 2014

Aim & Objective

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

Funding:

• A sum of Rs 510.86 crore will be spent over a period of 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
• The expenditure is partly funded by multilateral assistance to the tune of $50 million.

Six Pillars of NPCSCB are:

• Policy Framework
• Institutional Framework
• Competency Framework
• Digital learning Framework
• The electronic Human Resource Management System
• The monitoring and evaluation system

Features of the scheme:

• IGOT Platform: The capacity building will be delivered through iGOT Karmayogi digital platform, with content drawn from global best practices.
• The platform will act as a launchpad for the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB).
• Rules based to Roles based : The programme will support a transition from “rules-based to roles based” Human Resource Management (HRM) so that work allocations can be done by matching an official’s competencies to the requirements of the post.
• Apart from domain knowledge training, the scheme will focus on “functional and behavioural competencies” as well, and also includes a monitoring framework for performance evaluations.
• Integrated Initiative: Eventually, service matters such as confirmation after probation period, deployment, work assignments and notification of vacancies will all be integrated into the proposed framework.