'Without performance targets, the civil service degenerates into a closed priesthood with no accountability.' Discuss the statement with reference to the Mission Karmayogi.

__Mission Karmayogi:- (1) This program was brought by Government in 2020 (2) Focus is on capacity building of civil servants (3) Target is to train them with new age technology and equip them with better response capability (4) The program covers civil servants from across India - from both centre and state (5) The aim is to enhance the transparency & accountability of public service. (7) To ensure efficiency - the scheme also provides for iGOT platform. (8) This will help in performance based tracking of the role of civil servants.

Civil services in India:- These are part of permanent executive and play an important role - in acting as a link between Government & governed

issues with Bureaucracy:

• Ivory tower syndrome
• High rigidity & red tapism
• lack of connect with people
• Lack of accountability
• No Grievance redressal mechanism & Feedback to provide our input.

These challenges degenerates the entire purpose of their existance- Civil servants must have values like etc.

The recent change brought in through Mission Karmayogi will help in:-

• enhancing efficiency of Public service
• help us realise the goal of Minimum Government & Maximum Governance