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In a note sent to all departments, the Cabinet Secretariat has asked the ministries to move the focus from “process orientation to results orientation and provide a fair basis to evaluate department’s overall performance at the end of the year”, sources told The Indian Express.
According to the programme, which has been approved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a results framework document has to be prepared and record the agreed objectives, policies, programmes and projects of the ministry and rate them on the basis of parameters and indicators approved by the Cabinet Secretariat. The objective of the ministries have to be directly related to achievement and support of relevant national objectives stated in five-year plans, national flagships schemes and the President’s address, among other things.
As per the directive, every ministry will have to prepare a vision and mission document and assign relative weights to the objectives. Accordingly, they will have to specify success indicators, or parameters for measuring the performance of the department. The target would be a five point scale ranging from 100 per cent weight for excellent performance to 60 per cent for poor performance.
All the ministries are expected to submit their respective performance framework by November 30.
The draft of these programmes have to be prepared by every department at the beginning of each financial year, based on the proposed budgetary allocations for the year. Thereafter, the Cabinet Secretariat will have a look at these drafts and finalise them by March 31.
After six months, the results would be reviewed by a Committee on Government Performance, consisting of the finance secretary, expenditure secretary, Planning Commission secretary, Cabinet secretary and secretaries of other departments concerned. “This will also enable us to factor in unforeseen situations like drought, natural calamities, etc,” sources said. The results will have to be finalised by May every year.
The ministries will have to provide values for performance over the past two years for every indicator and will also have to project values for two years in the future. At the end of the year, the Secretariat would evaluate the performance and compare achievements with targets and determine the composite score.
“We will see the degree to which the government department in question have been able to meet the objective,” sources added.
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Yashwant Sinha was guilty of this too! Don't copy American Management Methods. Sure way to fail. Ranking/grading are wrong! He'll only get lies and unfaithful score cards. Waste of time. Counter Productive
Are the manifestoes of the Congress and alliance parties being implemented? Is there any monitoring? Or are the manifestos in the WPBs?
It would be indeed anxious to see the performance of the Minister for civil Aviation. Unless he is still in the stage of planning and getting committees in place. This minister is a waste of time and energo and I am sure the congress is aware yet needs to keep him for politicial reasons.
This is a good initiative and should make some phenomenal changes,but the objective and performance indicators should not be rated by themselves,there should be a separate body/committee to set,monitor and evaluate these performances.Anyhow this is just the starting of a good decision and should get improvised in long run.
Use evms for rating performance 1 button excellent 2 button v. good and so on.. congress will get the results they want..
FOR SUCCESS, PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY IN ONE'S LIFE, YOU NEED APPRECIATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY. APPRECIATION GIVES ENCOURAGEMENT TO ACHIEVE MORE SUCCESS WITH VIGOUR & ZEAL. IT COST FEW WORDS OF PRAISE AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO. ON THE OTHER HAND ACCOUNTABILTY, KEEPS YOU UNDER CHECK. IT IS HELPFUL IN PRIVATE AS WELL AS PUBLIC LIFE.WE SHOULD APPRECIATE THIS MOVE OF THE GOVERNMENT. LIKE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, THIS STEP OF THE GOVERNMENT WILL HELP IN MAKING SELF ANALYSIS OF ITS PERFORMANCE AS WELL AS NON-PERFORMANCE. EVERY DEPARTMENT IS INFACT HAS BEEN MADE ACCOUNTABLE. THE DATA COLLETED TO MAKE DECISION OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PERFORMANCE BY EACH DEPARTMENT WILL BE OPEN FOR SCRUTINY BY THE PUBLIC. THE RED TAPE ADMINISTRATION WILL HAVE TO CHANGE TO RESPONSIVE PUBLIC SERVICE.THIS TOOL OF APPRECIATION & ACCOUNTABILTY IF IMPLEMENTED WITH DETERMINATION BY THE VIGILANT CITIZENS WILL HELP IN ENFORCEMENT OF LAW AND ORDER AND ENSURE RULE OF LAW. LET RULE OF LAW AND NOT MAN PREVAIL
WHY NOT EVALUTE THE PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS MINISTERS WITH AMOUNT OF CORRUPTION AND MONEY THAT IS DEPOSTED IN SWISS BANKS . WHO WILL TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT IT APPLIES TO " DYNASTY " RULERS AND ITS " CHAMCHAS " AND FAMILY LIMITED COMPANIES MEMEBERS . IT IS JUST ANOTHER TRICKS TO FOOL THE PEOPLE OF INDIA LIKE AUSTERITY DRIVE . IT IS JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO BUY MEDIA LIKE N.D.T.V. AND TIMES OF INDIA TO SELL PROPAGANDA ON BEHALF OF INDIAN RULERS TO MAKE CORONATION OF CROWN PRICE LOOK NICE IN THE EYES OF OVER ONE BILLION PEOPLE . WHAT INDIA NEEDS IS FAST TRACK COURTS IN ALL MAJOR CITIES OF ALL THE STATES TO CARRY OUT CASES AGAINST TOP SCAM MASTER AND FRAUDSTERS WITH IN SIX MONTHS TIME PERIOD AND GUILTY MUST BE HANGED . THE SECOND THING IS TO BRING ALL MONEY DEPOSITED OVERSEAS BY PAST AND PRESENT POLITICIANS OF ALL COLOURS REGARDLESS WHICH PARTY ONE BELONGS AND THE GUILTY MUST BE HANGED IF PROVED GUILTY THAT IT IS ASSESTS LOOTED FROM TAX PAYERS MONEY . THIS IS WHAT INDIA NEEDS
Nice move , can't wait to see how it turns out and how the results are used to improve the efficiency and deliverance of job by the present govt.
Prime Minsiter's suggestion to evaluate the performance of various ministries under him by rating themselves their targets and achievement of those targets would not give a definite picture of performance undertaken by different ministries. When they give value for their performances, they will rate it high. But it should be understood that some of the Ministries in the GoI do not even an iota of idea of departments they are dealing in or the subjects coming under their jurisdiction. It is not project values for performance per se that is required. What was the aim of the Project? Who prepared the project? What were the definite outcomes envisaged? Their result. Did it improve the quality of life of beneficiary? Did his income increase. If these barometers are chosen, many of the Government schemes are in paper, even though the financial target , physical target have been achieved on paper. Miscellenous expenses, hidden expenses, administrative expenses,the project becomes unrealistic