HRM Initiatives and Accomplishments of ICAR

Not AvailableI N order to improve growth and development of the individuals and the Organization, Training and Capacity Building of each and every employee has its paramount importance. The right type of training at right stage of career enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the employees leading to higher organizational performance. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) decided to lay more thrust and focus on competency enhancement of all categories of employees for better realization of organizational mandate and vision. ICAR is served by about 19, 200 employees under four different categories namely Scientific, Technical, Administrative and Skilled Support Staff. Developing competency of each employee of different category as per National Training Policy - 2012 of GoI was a great challenge for an organization like ICAR. This needed concerted and focused initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of each employee through various training and capacity building programmers. In order to develop a system of training in ICAR, Assistant Director General (Human Resource Management) was appointed to act as Training Manager and created HRM Unit at ICAR Headquarters in 2014. Subsequently, Institutionalized System of Training was developed and ìICAR HRM Policy : Training and Capacity Building was formulated and implemented. During the initial phase of implementation of Policy (2014-16), some structural and framework related initiatives were taken while, effective implementation of Policy took off during 2016-18 and resulted in explicit desirable changes in the system. Special focus was given for training and capacity building of those categories of employees who were never considered for effective training in the past. In this process, many HRM activities are happening in ICAR which never happened earlier and even never thought earlier like trainings of regular Drivers and Skilled Support Staff and international exposure visits of multidisciplinary Scientific and Administrative staff together. That is why many Central Govt. Ministries/Departments including DoPT are acknowledging the HRM initiatives and accomplishments of ICAR. The Council acknowledges the valuable support and contributions of Sh C. Roul, Special Secretary, DARE & Secretary, ICAR, Internal Finance Division, Subject Matter Divisions, Directors and HRD Nodal Officers of ICAR-Institutes for all the HRM Initiatives, their effective implementation and Accomplishments in a short span of four years. I appreciate the sincere and persistent efforts of Dr A K Vyas, ADG (HRM) and Dr N K Jain, Principal Scientist (HRM) for such praiseworthy HRM Initiatives and Accomplishments of ICAR during 2014-18. The summaries salient HRM initiatives, activities and achievements of ICAR in this publication will be useful for various stakeholders and invite their constructive views for further scaling up the Training and Capacity Building of ICAR employees.Not Availabl