The bureaucrats in power will
have a hard time getting away
with no ground work done.
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh has set the buzzer on. The Performance
Evaluation and Monitoring System
(PEMS) formulated under the Performance
Management wing of the Cabinet
Secretariat has successfully finished its
Phase I. Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar
has brought in a specialist, Dr
Prajapati Trivedi, who is a Harvard graduate
and a former World Bank economist, as
Secretary, Performance Management. Prajapati
has made the message loud and
clear—if you want to stay in power, you
better perform.The 59 ministries covered in Phase I have finalised their Results-Framework Document (RFD) for the last quarter of 2009-2010. A report by the Performance Management team of the Cabinet Secretariat dated June 12, 2010, states, "Twenty-two out of 55 departments have scored below the average of 89.40 %."
Since the RFD exercise was only limited to the last quarter of the year (January 1 to March 31, 2010), the High-Power Committee on Government Performance reportedly decided to only declare the composite scores for the performance of the departments without giving a mention to their implied ratings /categories.
Capacity BuildingThe prime purpose of the agreement, primarily inspired by the Second Administrative Reforms Commission, is to trim down the quantity and increase the quality of governance.
