CM's call for performance appraisal

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, MARCH 19. The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, has called upon heads of departments and civic and local bodies to look for areas of private participation and services which can be outsourced.

The idea is to lessen non-plan spending of these bodies and make their functioning cost-effective, he explained.

He was addressing Ministers, Secretaries and Heads of Departments at a high-level meeting at the Jubilee Hall on Monday. It discussed guidelines for preparing departmental action plans under Vision 2020 and evolving a system of performance appraisal of the departments and the employees. Development and performance indicators were finalised to facilitate implementation and monitoring.

Mr. Naidu cited the example of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) and the Guntur General Hospital which had remarkably improved their services at much less cost. He noted, however, that Guntur hospital which had shown very impressive improvement under Mr. Anji Reddy was back to square one after his transfer. Establishment cost should not exceed 15 per cent and allowed to hover around the present level of 60 per cent. Civic bodies could think of outsourcing their services instead of recruitment.

Outlining the indicators concept, he said the performance of departments/units and individuals would be evaluated through quantifiable and measurable indicators. The departments would be free to spend 50 per cent of the budgetary allocations without approval of the Finance Department to execute their action plan. They were free also to reappropriate the funds. But they would have to show results. A significant feature of the exercise is preparation of database on 11.75 lakh Government employees. The two-part format covers personal, family, health, income, travel details as well as employee perception of efficiency, skill/knowledge, training, computer competence and seeks suggestions on improved governance and human resource development.

He explained that the surplus employees would be identified and surrendered to the surplus manpower cell in the Finance Department for redeployment at the State.

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