New Delhi: The government has launched the Capacity Building Plan (CBP) for Government employees, at DoPT headquarters in New Delhi.
The initiative was launched by Dr Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy, and Space.
The newly launched initiative aims to train officers and rationalise deployment of officers and staff depending on the skills and acquired competencies. It lays emphasis on transformation of Government offices.
Lauding the CBP for the iGOT training modules for all levels of Government employees right from the ASO level to JS and a few select courses for even the Secretaries, Dr Jitendra Singh asked the CBC Chairman Adil Zainulbhai to devise a similar Training Module for the Ministers also.
During the launch, Dr Jitendra Singh said that centre has emphasised on eGovernance that leads to Easy, Economic and Environment friendly functioning in the Government. Easy implies Elaborate, eOffice leads to Economy, while doing away with file work saves not only time but is also Environment friendly. The Administrative reforms initiated by PM Modi are aimed at creating an efficient, transparent and corruption-free administration.
Adding he said further, ‘The Karmayogi Prarambh module has been made part of Induction Training of all Government employees and the same has been implemented for the new recruits who joined Government service under the Rozgar Mela, the 6 th sequel of which was held yesterday where over 51,000 youth were handed by appointment letters by PM Modi.’
The DoPT Minister called upon the CBC to constantly update and revise the various training modules as the Artificial Intelligence is about to sweep our learning and work culture.
The Chairman of CBC notified the Minister about the introduction of 700 courses on the iGOT platform. In regards to the approximately 3 million employees of the Central Government, he mentioned that 1 million personnel belong to the Railways, another 1 million are part of CAPFs, and the remaining 1 million serve in other Ministries and Departments.
80% skills are common related to functional and behavioural skills while just 20% are domain oriented related to specific tasks and roles. The Mission Karmayogi and iGOT aims to transform ‘karamcharis’ to ‘Karamyogis’, he said.
