Performance Management Division
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The Performance Management Division, Cabinet Secretariat was set up by the Government of India in January 2009.[1] The Division was established with a view to assess the effectiveness of Government Departments in their mandated functions. Reporting to the Cabinet Secretary, Dr Prajapati Trivedi was made the first secretary,[2] Performance Management[3][4] with a mandate to roll out the PMES. In the year 2013 (fourth year of implementation) the system extends to 80 Departments/Ministries with around 800 responsibility centres (autonomous organizations / subordinate offices/ attached offices).[5]
- T. V. Somanathan, Cabinet Secretary
- Dr Prajapati Trivedi, Secretary Performance Management
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| Jurisdiction | Government of India |
| Headquarters | Cabinet Secretariat,Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi |
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| Website | performance.gov.in |
Background
In the Joint Session of Parliament held on 4 June 2009, the then President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil had outlined 13 important measures to be initiated by the Government of India in the next hundred days.[6] ‘’Establishing Mechanism for performance monitoring and performance evaluation in Government on a regular basis ‘’ was one of the measures to be initiated by the Government. This was followed by the approval of an outline of a Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) for Government Departments by the Prime Minister on September 11, 2009.[7]
Working
The PMES system was established with a view to assess the effectiveness of Government Departments in their mandated functions which involves the preparation of a Results Framework Document (RFD) by each department every year,[8][9][10] highlighting its objectives and priorities for the financial year against pre specified targets at the end of the year.
RFD(Results Framework Document)
A Results-Framework Document (RFD) is a PMES tool, documenting a record of understanding between a Minister representing the people's mandate, and the Secretary of a department responsible for implementing this mandate.[11][12][13] In its fifth round of implementation, i.e. 2013, the division has made public five compendiums having RFDs of different Departments/Ministries
See also
- Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India[19]