What's the NEWS
The Union Cabinet has approved launching of a National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)with the following institutional framework:-
1. Prime Minister's Public Human Resources (HR) Council,
2. Capacity Building Commission.
3. Special Purpose Vehicle for owning and operating the digital assets
and the technological platform for online training,
4. Coordination Unit headed by the Cabinet Secretary.

Salient Features of NPCSCB

• Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare the Indian Civil Servant for the future by making him more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled.
• Empowered with specific role-competencies, the civil servant will be able to ensure efficient service delivery of the highest quality standards.

Know! about Integrated Government Online Training-iGOTKarmayogi Platform.

• The Programme will be delivered by setting up an Integrated Government Online Training-iGOTKarmayogi Platform.
• iGOT-Karmayogi platform brings the scale and state-of-the-art infrastructure to augment the capacities of over two crore officials in India.
• The platform is expected to evolve into a vibrant and world-class market place for content where carefully curated and vetted digital e-learning material will be made available.
• Besides capacity building, service matters like confirmation after probation period, deployment, work assignment and notification of vacancies etc. would eventually be integrated with the proposed competency framework.

• The core guiding principles of the Programme will be:

• Supporting Transition from 'Rules based' to 'Roles based
• Work allocation of civil servants by matching their competencies to the requirements of the post.
• To emphasize on 'on-site learning' to complement the ‘off-site' learning,
• To calibrate all Civil Service positions to a Framework of Roles, Activities and Competencies (FRACs) approach and to create and deliver learning content relevant to the identified FRACs in every Government entity,
• To make available to all civil servants, an opportunity to continuously build and strengthen their Behavioral, Functional and Domain Competencies

Know! about Capacity Building Commission

• It is also proposed to set up a Capacity Building Commission, with a view to ensure a uniform approach in managing and regulating the capacity building ecosystem on collaborative and co-sharing basis.

The role of Commission will be as under-

• To assist the PM Public Human Resources Council in approving the Annual Capacity Building Plans.
• To exercise functional supervision over all Central Training Institutions dealing with civil services capacity building.
• To make recommendations on standardization of training and capacity building, pedagogy and methodology
• To suggest policy interventions required in the areas of HR Management and Capacity Building to the Government.

Know! about Public Human Resources Council

• A Public Human Resources Council comprising of select Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, eminent public HR practitioners, thinkers, global thought leaders and Public Service functionaries under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister
• It will serve as the apex body for providing strategic direction to the task of Civil Services Reform and capacity building.

• To cover around 46 lakh Central employees, a sum of Rs.510.86 crore will be spent over a period of 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
• The expenditure is partly funded by multilateral assistance to the tune of USD 50 million.
• A wholly owned Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for NPCSCB will be set up under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013.
• The SPV will be a "not-for-profit" company and will own and manage iGOT-Karmayogi platform.

Why it is needed to change the training methodology and approach

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Bilateral Relations
USISPF-3rd annual leadership summit

Relevance IN - Prelims ( about USISPF) + Mains ( GS II Bilateral relations)
What's the NEWS

• Prime Minister shall deliver the Special Key Note Address at the USISPF 3 Annual Leadership Summit

Know! about the Summit

• The Theme of the 5 day Summit that began on the 31 of August is "US-India Navigating New Challenges"
• The theme covers various subjects such as India's potential in becoming a Global Manufacturing Hub, Opportunities in India's Gas Market, Ease of Doing Business to attract FDI in India, Common Opportunities & Challenges in Tech Space, Indo-Pacific Economic issues, Innovation in Public Health and others.

Know! about the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF)

• The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) is a non-profit organization, with the primary objective of strengthening the U.S.-India bilateral and strategic partnership.
• The Executive Board came together in 2017 to establish USISPF with the purpose of enabling business and governments to collaborate and create meaningful opportunities
• Dedicated to strengthening economic and commercial ties, USISPF plays a significant role in fostering a robust and dynamic relationship between the two countries through policy advocacy that will lead to driving economic growth, entrepreneurship, employment-creation, and innovation to create a more inclusive society.

Economy
India's GDP shrinks by 23.9% in first quarter of FY2020-21
Relevance IN - Prelims ( facts and figures of first quarter of the financial year 2020-21 report) + Mains ( GS III Economic development)
What's the NEWS

• India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has shrunk by 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the financial year 2020-21.

• "GDP has showing a contraction of 23.9 per cent as compared to 5.2 per cent growth in Q1 2019-20," an official statement by the National Statistical Office (NSO)
• The worst-hit sector in the first quarter of FY2020-21 was construction, which contracted by 50 per cent.
• The hotel industry contracted by 47 per cent, manufacturing by 39.3 per cent and mining by 23.3 per cent.
• The only sector which managed to survive the slump was agriculture, which registered a growth of 3.4 per cent.
• The GDP growth data accounts for the months of April, May and June - when a strict national lockdown was in place in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  

The Performance of eight Core industries

• Coal -5.7%
• Crude Oil -4.9%
• Natural Gas - 10.2%
• Refinery Product -13.9%
• Fertilizers +6.9%
• Steel -16.9%
• Cement -13.5%
• Electricity -2.3%
• Overall (core industries) -9.6%

Eight Core Industries

• ontracting for the fifth consecutive month, the output of eight core infrastructure sectors dropped by 9.6 per cent in July due to decline mostly in production of steel, refinery products and cement.
• Barring fertiliser, all seven sectors -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, steel, cement and electricity -- recorded negative growth in July.

Quarterly Estimates of GVA

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