Centre goes online for appraisal of IAS officers
LUCKNOW: The Centre has introduced the system of online filing of Performance Appraisal Report (PAR) for IAS officers
from the current assessment year ie 2013-14. The software developed by
the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for this purpose was launched by V
Narayanasamy, Union minister of state for personnel, public grievances
& pensions and prime minister's office on Thursday. It would be
operational for use by the officers posted in state as well as Central
ministries/ department from the last week of March 2014.
The
online filing of Performance Appraisal Report will bring more probity
and transparency in the recording of PAR, avoid loss of PARs during
transition; ensure better monitoring and timely completion of PARs and
easy and immediate access to the PARs by the authorized users.
The software has been developed after feedback from all the stakeholders
-- states, central ministries/departments through a series of meetings
with principal secretaries/secretaries, GAD/personnel departments and
joint secretary(administration) of all central ministries/departments.
Some of the important features of the software are as follows:
The above software would be linked to the executive records available on
DoPT's website indicating the name of the officer, the State where
attached, present posting, etc.
Thus, the form would be
pre-populated with existing information already available in the
executive record sheet and only details like reporting, reviewing and
accepting authorities, based on the work flow for each officer would
have to be filled up by GAD Department in the state/JS(administration)
at the Centre before sending it to each officer online. The software has
an inbuilt system of generating auto-alerts, which would go to the
concerned officers with whom the PAR would be pending for more than the
specified time and thus would ensure better monitoring of the writing of
PAR.
Each officer would have to digitally sign the report
before forwarding it to appropriate authority. It would also have the
facility of uploading summary of medical reports, certificate of
training, academic courses, appreciation letters, etc. The software
would have an in-built security mechanism to ensure that nobody can
tamper with the data available in it.
For e-filing, each
officer/authority involved in the work flow is required to be issued a
Digital Signature Certificate(DSC) which is the digital equivalent of
physical or paper certificate for authentication. The DSC being a
pre-requisite for online filing of PAR, the majority of officers posted
in states as well as in central ministries/departments have already been
issued the DSC dongle.
To familiarise the state
GAD/administration division at the Centre with the operations and
functioning of the software, training workshops are being organised by
the NIC. The following help resources to the states and central
ministries/departments are also being provided: User manuals on 'ePAR'
and DSC Installation, Troubleshooting Guide; On line Interactive
Tutorials; and Support Portal to provide feedback/queries related to
software.
MD NAUSHAD ALAM
PGDM 2 SEM
LUCKNOW: The Centre has introduced the system of online filing of Performance Appraisal Report (PAR) for IAS officers
from the current assessment year ie 2013-14. The software developed by
the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for this purpose was launched by V
Narayanasamy, Union minister of state for personnel, public grievances
& pensions and prime minister's office on Thursday. It would be
operational for use by the officers posted in state as well as Central
ministries/ department from the last week of March 2014.
The online filing of Performance Appraisal Report will bring more probity and transparency in the recording of PAR, avoid loss of PARs during transition; ensure better monitoring and timely completion of PARs and easy and immediate access to the PARs by the authorized users.
The software has been developed after feedback from all the stakeholders -- states, central ministries/departments through a series of meetings with principal secretaries/secretaries, GAD/personnel departments and joint secretary(administration) of all central ministries/departments. Some of the important features of the software are as follows:
The above software would be linked to the executive records available on DoPT's website indicating the name of the officer, the State where attached, present posting, etc.
Thus, the form would be pre-populated with existing information already available in the executive record sheet and only details like reporting, reviewing and accepting authorities, based on the work flow for each officer would have to be filled up by GAD Department in the state/JS(administration) at the Centre before sending it to each officer online. The software has an inbuilt system of generating auto-alerts, which would go to the concerned officers with whom the PAR would be pending for more than the specified time and thus would ensure better monitoring of the writing of PAR.
Each officer would have to digitally sign the report before forwarding it to appropriate authority. It would also have the facility of uploading summary of medical reports, certificate of training, academic courses, appreciation letters, etc. The software would have an in-built security mechanism to ensure that nobody can tamper with the data available in it.
For e-filing, each officer/authority involved in the work flow is required to be issued a Digital Signature Certificate(DSC) which is the digital equivalent of physical or paper certificate for authentication. The DSC being a pre-requisite for online filing of PAR, the majority of officers posted in states as well as in central ministries/departments have already been issued the DSC dongle.
To familiarise the state GAD/administration division at the Centre with the operations and functioning of the software, training workshops are being organised by the NIC. The following help resources to the states and central ministries/departments are also being provided: User manuals on 'ePAR' and DSC Installation, Troubleshooting Guide; On line Interactive Tutorials; and Support Portal to provide feedback/queries related to software.
The online filing of Performance Appraisal Report will bring more probity and transparency in the recording of PAR, avoid loss of PARs during transition; ensure better monitoring and timely completion of PARs and easy and immediate access to the PARs by the authorized users.
The software has been developed after feedback from all the stakeholders -- states, central ministries/departments through a series of meetings with principal secretaries/secretaries, GAD/personnel departments and joint secretary(administration) of all central ministries/departments. Some of the important features of the software are as follows:
The above software would be linked to the executive records available on DoPT's website indicating the name of the officer, the State where attached, present posting, etc.
Thus, the form would be pre-populated with existing information already available in the executive record sheet and only details like reporting, reviewing and accepting authorities, based on the work flow for each officer would have to be filled up by GAD Department in the state/JS(administration) at the Centre before sending it to each officer online. The software has an inbuilt system of generating auto-alerts, which would go to the concerned officers with whom the PAR would be pending for more than the specified time and thus would ensure better monitoring of the writing of PAR.
Each officer would have to digitally sign the report before forwarding it to appropriate authority. It would also have the facility of uploading summary of medical reports, certificate of training, academic courses, appreciation letters, etc. The software would have an in-built security mechanism to ensure that nobody can tamper with the data available in it.
For e-filing, each officer/authority involved in the work flow is required to be issued a Digital Signature Certificate(DSC) which is the digital equivalent of physical or paper certificate for authentication. The DSC being a pre-requisite for online filing of PAR, the majority of officers posted in states as well as in central ministries/departments have already been issued the DSC dongle.
To familiarise the state GAD/administration division at the Centre with the operations and functioning of the software, training workshops are being organised by the NIC. The following help resources to the states and central ministries/departments are also being provided: User manuals on 'ePAR' and DSC Installation, Troubleshooting Guide; On line Interactive Tutorials; and Support Portal to provide feedback/queries related to software.
MD NAUSHAD ALAM
PGDM 2 SEM
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