Center unveil National Standards for Civil Service Training Institutions

Highlights:

• Recently, the Union government unveiled the “National Standards for Civil Service Training Institutions (NSCSTI)”, with the aim of raising their quality and capacity.
• Now, India has become the world’s first country to launch a unique model for creating a national level standard for civil service training institutions.
• The National Standards for Civil Service Training Institutions (NSCSTI) is developed by CBC to create a baseline for Central Training Institutes on their current capacity, for elevating their quality and capacity of training delivery and to harmonise standards for training. 
• It will also set aspirations for training institutions to strive towards excellence. 
• The country is having standards and accreditation in higher education, healthcare and environment, but for the first time it became applicable for training institutions also.
• A web portal and approach paper for national standards were also unveiled, during the launch event will national standards raise capacity and quality.
• The commission comprises of experts in related fields and global professionals. 
• It will help in preparing and monitoring annual capacity building plans as well as audit human resources present in the government.

• Mission Karmayogi is a “National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)”. 
• It was launched to build a future-ready civil service with right skill, knowledge and attitude. 
• The scheme seeks to prepare civil servants in India for future by making them more constructive, creative, imaginative, innovative, progressive and technology-enabled.
• Mission Karmayogi will cover 46 lakh central government employees. 
• It has been launched at an outlay of Rs. 510 crores for a period of five-years.