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Civil Services Reforms in India

Civil Services Reforms in India Image Source - civil service India One of India's most renowned police officers recently argued that the government should implement the "Nitipath" program, which would be similar to Agnipath and the short service commission for military personnel. The framework of the Scheme After 10, 25, and 30 years of service, officers may be filtered out. By doing this, the top-heavy structure would be fixed, and a culture of excellence and public service would be fostered. The amount of apex-level positions and career routes does not limit the government's ability to hire four times as many…

30 August, 2022 Civil services reforms

Mission Karmayogi

Mission Karmayogi Dubbed the biggest bureaucratic reform initiative, the Union Cabinet 2020 approved ‘Mission Karmayogi’, a new capacity-building scheme for civil servants aimed at upgrading the post-recruitment training mechanism of the officers and employees at all levels. Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare Indian civil servants for the future by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled. Mission Karmayogi programme will be delivered by setting up a digital platform called iGOTKarmayogi. Empowered with specific role competencies, a civil servant will be able to ensure efficient service delivery of the highest quality standards, the…

27 August, 2021 Civil services reforms

Administrative Reforms in India

Administrative Reforms in India Administrative reforms are a continuous process and the Government follow the maxim “Minimum Government - Maximum Governance”.  Government from time to time brings administrative reforms, to encourage greater efficiency, transparent and corruption-free governance, accountability and reduce scope for discretion.  Some of the major steps are as follows: Launch of “Mission Karmayogi”- National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB), a new national architecture for civil services capacity building has been launched.  It is a comprehensive reform of the capacity-building apparatus at individual, institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery; e-Samiksha- A real-time online system…

06 August, 2021 Civil services reforms

Civil Servants as Joint Secretaries

Civil Servants as Joint Secretaries GS: Paper-2 Civil service reforms A Union government circular set new conditions for empanelling civil servants for appointment as joint secretaries in central ministries. What Gov say? Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) stipulated that the qualifying service period for empanelment of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers as joint secretaries at the Centre would be 16 years. Even earlier, an IAS officer would usually become eligible for empanelment as a joint secretary at the Centre after 16 years of service. However, in reality, many of them would get empanelled only after 18 years of service. The reiteration of…

26 June, 2020 Civil services reforms

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