For the first time in India, citizens will be able to track ministries’ progress reports online. And Prajapati Trivedi has the job of putting the system in place
PRAJAPATI TRIVEDI
The Mission Secretary, performance management. To set up a transparent and objective performance appraisal system for the various ministries.
The Difference He Makes He comes with rich experience. His World Bank stint took him to places as diverse as Kenya, Riyadh and Gaza — he has worked with 26 governments across the world. That gives him the ability to tap into some of the best practices in different parts of the world.
Key Insight “At the end of the entire exercise,
we can name and shame, say the top 10 ministries and bottom 10 ministries, unleashing a competitive zeal inside the government. ”
After doing everything else, this was the ideal job. The job was so compelling. I got this opportunity to close the implementation gap in the government. With my World Bank experience and my global networks, I also had this ability to tap into some of the best practices in different parts of the world. It’s well established that the big difference between the developed country and developing ones is not so much about strategising and planning but implementation. I had been writing a lot to the Indian government, made proposals wanting to work here. I was helping other governments and I wanted to do it for India.
The Progress so far
The RFD for the three months, January-March 2010, has just been released. There will be new documents for the next financial year in April. We are doing all we can to help. We have already done 13 workshops for up to 500 bureaucrats to help them prepare RFD documents. Arun Maira will conduct a one-day work shop in early February to help senior bureaucrats learn how to set strategy. To let all of them know that the PM was dead serious about all this, the cabinet secretary had earlier called a meeting of all secretaries on the results framework documents and interacted with them in batches of 15.
(This story appears in the 19 February, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)