Centre to Hire Leading HR Firm to Revamp Competency of Bureaucracy, Study 7 Govt Depts

New Delhi: The Government of India is looking to onboard a leading HR consultancy firm to help it revamp the competency of the country’s bureaucracy, and will allow it to study the organisational structures and the work allocation documents of seven key ministries and departments, including the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Health. To start off, the consultant will be asked to study the organisational structures and the work allocation documents of seven key ministries or departments of the Government of India – namely, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, the Ministry of Rural Development, the Ministry of Health, NHAI, Ministry of Environment and Forests, and Department of Personnel and Training. “FRAC will map the roles and activities corresponding to every government position with their desired competencies across behavioral attributes, functional skills and domain knowledge. The consultant will also undertake a detailed review of UNDP’s competency framework “to ensure the relevance of alignment of behavioral competencies with the changing context of Government of India and expected key behaviors from civil servants”.