India to adopt Singapore model for ranking babus at
work places?
NEW DELHI: The Department of Personnel and Training
(DoPT) has finally kicked in a process to change the Performance Appraisal
(PAR) system for bureaucrats, asking for the views of other ministries on an
improved system which borrows heavily from the model followed in
Singapore.
As per a DoPT note circulated to other ministries,
the new system will make the annual appraisal process more objective in nature
than the numerical rating system followed at present. Also, any superior giving
an "outstanding" ranking to a junior will have to cite a
"specific achievement" to justify the ranking, as per the note.
The new system will also follow the model of the
Singapore Civil Service that links the pace of promotions to an estimation of
the highest level of work an offence can competently handle before his
retirement and considers the official's intellectual qualities, result
orientation and leadership qualities for appraisal. DoPT will also convert the
appraisal process into an online filing system for IAS officers which will be
duly explained to all state governments in an upcoming meeting on September
27.
This follows after concerns were raised at the
highest quarters about the current appraisal system in government where nearly
every official gets an outstanding raking from his supervisor without even a
face-to-face meeting with the appraiser.
Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth, at the Civil Services
Day function earlier this April, had conceded that the Performance Appraisal
Report system that was last revised in 2007 needed a major change as nearly
every government servant was getting a 9 or 10 ranking in the annual appraisals.
"If everyone is outstanding, no one is," Seth had said
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