Kerala: Corporate style sops for bureaucrats to perform
The departments, it is said, will be categorised on the basis of plan allocation.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The LDF is planning to shake up the “dull bureaucratic machinery” with a never before marks system. A corporate style incentive system could be put in place from the next fiscal for the state bureaucracy. According to the plan, now getting its final shape, top departments in five categories will be given a hefty cash prize, and a citation. The departments, it is said, will be categorised on the basis of plan allocation.
Category one – up to Rs 10 lakh; Category two – between Rs 11 lakh-100 crore; Category three – Rs 101-300 crore; category four – Rs 301-600 crore; category five – '601 crore and above. While the top department in each category will get Rs 5 lakh, the two runners up will pocket Rs 3 lakh and Rs 1 lakh. Performance will be rated across five parameters, on a total of 100 points. Half the points, 50 per cent, will be for expenditure.
Marks will be given on the basis of optimal quarterly achievements. To avoid bunching of expenditure in the last quarter, the percentages of utilisation in the four quarters have been pegged at 10, 20, 30 and 40 respectively. “We have to execute plans without delay and unnecessary cost overruns. Plan implementation style needs to be modernised and reformed so as to achieve the targets within the stipulated time frame. In order to avoid delay, plan formulation has to be completed will be completed in the months of April and May,” a top General Administration Department official said.
Other performance parameters are: plan governance (15 per cent); physical achievement (15 per cent); innovation (10 per cent): and implementation of centrally sponsored schemes (10 per cent). The responsibility of execution of each scheme will be vested with a specific official, subject to the general control by government secretaries and heads of departments. “It will be his or her responsibility to monitor plan implementation on a continuous basis,” the official said. The name of the responsible official will be published in the website.