News - Govt issues guidelines to review ministers- India Today
he Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES), introduced last year on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directions to assess performance of central ministers, has taken off after initial hiccups.
The government has issued revised guidelines that co- opt ministers concerned at all stages of the review process.
Fresh norms stipulate that the minister in- charge would play a key role in deciding the priorities among his departmental objectives. "The minister will also approve the corresponding success indicators (key result areas and key performance indicators) and time-bound targets to measure progress in achieving these objectives," the PMES outline document says.
Some ministers had earlier objected to the PMES as they felt they were accountable to the Prime Minister rather than any "extraneous" committee of experts for the evaluation of their performance.
The PMES is intended to continuously assess the performance of various ministries and departments on a year-to-year basis. It involves each department preparing a result- framework document (RFD) listing its priorities.
The cabinet secretariat has to prepare the broad guidelines for the format of the RFDs and the evaluation method, "keeping in mind the variation in the tasks performed by various ministries/ departments". The guidelines now say after six months, the results framework and achievement of each ministry or department would be reviewed by a committee on government performance comprising cabinet secretary, finance secretary, expenditure secretary, secretary ( Planning Commission) and the secretary of the department concerned.
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