For India's top bureaucrats, there's little time to while away on the golf course or at Delhi Gymkhana Club. They are racing against the clock, trying to achieve revised full-year targets in half the time—there's less than six months left for the end of the financial year.
But that's not all. On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked all secretaries to advance budget work by three months and visit their first place of posting for a reality check. The same day, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), under Modi's direct charge, advised bureaucrats to replicate a Gujarat scheme and pursue volunteer works of a social nature but not at the cost of their responsibilities at work.
The cabinet secretariat had written to 72 ministries and departments asking them to submit annual goals in revised result framework documents (RFDs) for 2014-15 for approval by a high-powered committee chaired by cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth. "With the new government in Centre, the priorities of the government have been revised," the letter said.
RFDs had been prepared and submitted in April, detailing targets for the year. But the cabinet secretariat asked all ministries on June 16, and again on September 15, to align these with the BJP's manifesto and the president's address to Parliament after the new government took charge at the end of May.
"All ministries submitted their fresh RFDs last week with targets having timelines from October till next March. Effectively, ministries have about five months left to achieve the new targets for year 2014-15," a senior government official told ET.
For example, DoPT's fresh targets include drawing up a policy for inducting private talent into government, preparing an online system of performance appraisals for bureaucrats and creating an e-record room by scanning all files over the last 10 years.
The cabinet secretariat in September asked the telecom department to include the BJP's promise of Wi-Fi zones in public areas in its revised RFD. The petroleum ministry was asked to incorporate the BJP's intent on coming out with a national energy policy, taking steps to maximise the potential of oil, gas, ocean, wind and nuclear resources and promoting the concept of proactive carbon credits.
But that's not all. On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked all secretaries to advance budget work by three months and visit their first place of posting for a reality check. The same day, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), under Modi's direct charge, advised bureaucrats to replicate a Gujarat scheme and pursue volunteer works of a social nature but not at the cost of their responsibilities at work.
The cabinet secretariat had written to 72 ministries and departments asking them to submit annual goals in revised result framework documents (RFDs) for 2014-15 for approval by a high-powered committee chaired by cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth. "With the new government in Centre, the priorities of the government have been revised," the letter said.
RFDs had been prepared and submitted in April, detailing targets for the year. But the cabinet secretariat asked all ministries on June 16, and again on September 15, to align these with the BJP's manifesto and the president's address to Parliament after the new government took charge at the end of May.
"All ministries submitted their fresh RFDs last week with targets having timelines from October till next March. Effectively, ministries have about five months left to achieve the new targets for year 2014-15," a senior government official told ET.
For example, DoPT's fresh targets include drawing up a policy for inducting private talent into government, preparing an online system of performance appraisals for bureaucrats and creating an e-record room by scanning all files over the last 10 years.
The cabinet secretariat in September asked the telecom department to include the BJP's promise of Wi-Fi zones in public areas in its revised RFD. The petroleum ministry was asked to incorporate the BJP's intent on coming out with a national energy policy, taking steps to maximise the potential of oil, gas, ocean, wind and nuclear resources and promoting the concept of proactive carbon credits.
Source:-The Economic Times
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