IAS officer to constable: Govt training for employees has hits and misses

Mission Karmayogi is ambitious in its target but vague about how civil servants are using what they learn

“You will be surprised to know the government has over a thousand training institutions for (its) employees. This is the first time a rating exercise has begun with them,” Praveen Singh Pardeshi, member (administration) at the Capacity Building Commission, told this correspondent.

The Mission Karmayogi is meant for government employees and the Capacity Building Commission is almost like its regulator. Four years into the mission as this government’s term ends, is a good time for stock taking.

It started with meetings Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first term from 2014 to 2019 held with batches of India government officers