NewDelhi: The PM Narendra Modi led Union Cabinet met on Wednesday and took some key decisions including the approval of Mission Karmayogi for civil servants for bringing post-recruitment reforms in government and introduction of J&K languages bill in Parliament.Apart from Prakash Javadekar, Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar and transport minister Nitin Gadkari were present during the press briefing.
According to the new definitions, micro-units will be those with an investment of Rs 1 crore and turnover o Rs 5 crore, whereas the definition for medium units has been revised to Rs 50 crore investment, Rs 250 crore turnover; small businesses will be those with an investment of Rs 5 crore and turnover of Rs. 50 crore.
The NDA Cabinet approved Mission Karmayogi – national programme for civil services capacity building – to lay the foundation for capacity building of civil servants so that they remain entrenched in Indian culture while they learn from best practices across the world.
Union minister Prakash Javadekar said that ‘Mission Karmayogi’ aims to prepare Indian civil servants for future by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled.
Mission Karmayogi will focus on individual (civil servants) and institutional capacity building. At top, there will be a PM’s HR Council which will consist of national and international experts under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
Capacity Building Commission will be set up which will harmonise training standards, create shared faculty & resources, and will have a supervisory role over all training institutions so that there’s a common understanding of India’s aspirations and development goals.
The Cabinet approved the introduction of Jammu & Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020 in the Parliament in which five languages – Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, Hindi and English – will be official languages. The decision was taken based on public demand, Prakash Javadekar said during a press briefing.
Inclusion of Dogri, Hindi & Kashmiri as official languages in Jammu & Kashmir is not only a fulfillment of a long-pending public demand but also in keeping with the spirit of equality ushered after August 5, 2019, said Union minister Jitendra Singh
The Union Cabinet also approved three MoUs – one between the textile ministry & Japan for quality evaluation method, between mining ministry and Finland; and between the ministry of new & renewable energy and Denmark, information and broadcasting
minister Prakash Javdekar said. by agency.
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