Officer competency model draws from PM’s Mann Ki Baat, speeches

“We looked astatine what the PM said. We spell by the decisions of the authorities of the time and what the main enforcement talks about. We didn’t privation to conscionable spell by mapping retired something. We did a ample connection exemplary (LLM) investigation of each his Mann Ki Baat episodes, speeches, tweets, etc.,” R Balasubramaniam, Member (Human Resource), CBC, said.

The exemplary draws inspiration from 4 resolutions that “every nationalist authoritative should embody”, namely vikas (development), garva (pride), kartavya (duty) and ekta (unity), which were each distilled from Prime Minister Modi’s speeches arsenic recurrent themes, helium said.

The exemplary consists of 34 competencies, of which 13 are categorised arsenic ‘behavioural’ and are further divided betwixt ‘core’ and ‘leadership’ competencies. These see self-awareness, idiosyncratic effectiveness, creativity and innovation, and strategical leadership.

The remaining 21 competencies are categorised arsenic ‘functional’, which see national centricity, argumentation architecture, integer fluency, fiscal absorption and information analytics.

With the relation of governance evolving and achromatic swan events increasing, the exemplary has been designed to guarantee accountability among civilian servants and to heighten performance, citizen-centric and tech-enabled governance, and aboriginal readiness.

“The anticipation of a civilian servant contiguous is nary longer similar successful the past, wherever you conscionable present connected schemes and programmes. Today, the PM’s telephone has been to physique a bureaucracy successful which the mindset transitions from feeling and acting similar a karmachari oregon a nationalist servant, to behaving similar a karmayogi, wherever helium does work without immoderate anticipation successful return,” Balasubramaniam told The Indian Express.

Soon, authorities employees volition acquisition a proctored appraisal of their competencies, based connected which an algorithm volition urge them courses connected iGOT. Completion of courses connected iGOT, which are present mapped to competencies, volition besides beryllium tracked by seniors.

“The infinitesimal I decorativeness a course, my certificate gets downloaded and gets tagged to e-HRMS (Human Resource Management System). So I, arsenic the brag of my division, tin spot each my employees, what competencies they have. I tin promote them to bash (courses),” Balasubramaniam said.

Presently, authorities employees are mandated to implicit a minimum of 50 hours of grooming connected iGOT each year.

According to Balasubramaniam, civilian servants’ competencies assessed done the exemplary volition find the benignant of jobs they do. At the aforesaid time, they volition beryllium capable to usage the iGOT portal to rapidly get competencies astatine their job, which could impact a caller programme that requires upskilling.

The Karmayogi Competency Model was developed done superior and secondary research, extended stakeholder engagement, “including representatives from the nationalist and backstage sectors, academia, and experts successful Indian Knowledge Systems”, and a process of planetary benchmarking against competency models developed by Australia, Singapore, and South Korea.

At the moment, the exemplary is for civilian servants employed with the Central authorities and with immoderate states similar Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh that person besides signed up.

The CBC was established successful April 2021 and is uniquely staffed with practice from the backstage sector, the civilian society, and the IAS. Former McKinsey India caput Adil Zainulbhai is its Chairperson, civilian nine seasoned Balasubramaniam is Member (HR) and erstwhile CMD of ONGC Alka Mittal is Member (Administration).