Strengthen PMES to improve public governance, says
Ind-Ra
27/06/2014 15:33
Country’s leading rating agency India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) has said that the Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) introduced by the Government of India is an intervention which will improve public governance and deliver better public goods/services in India. “Public governance was one the key issues around which the recently concluded parliamentary election was fought and rightly so because cross-country empirical research suggests that quality of governance has a strong correlation with economic growth and also the overall well-being of the people,” Ind-Ra said in a press release. The PMES is a system to both “evaluate” and “monitor” the performance of government ministries/departments by comparing their actual achievements against predetermined annual targets. Along with introducing the PMES, the government of India also set up a Performance Management Division (PMD) within the Cabinet Secretariat to introduce, execute and supervise the PMES. Ind-Ra expects the new government to not only continue with the existing PMES but also to improve and strengthen it. It said that the PMES needs to be publicised extensively so that stake holders can be made aware of this effort. In a bid to create transparency in governance and make people believe in PMES, the latest performance evaluation reports along with the RFD documents of various ministries/departments should be uploaded on the PMD website. Moreover, to improve the effectiveness of PMES, Ind-Ra suggested inclusion of stakeholders’ suggestions/feedback at the time of RFD formulation/assessment of ministries/departments, and a central law on the lines of the ‘Right to Public Services Act’ introduced in Bihar in April 2011.
27/06/2014 15:33
Country’s leading rating agency India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) has said that the Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) introduced by the Government of India is an intervention which will improve public governance and deliver better public goods/services in India. “Public governance was one the key issues around which the recently concluded parliamentary election was fought and rightly so because cross-country empirical research suggests that quality of governance has a strong correlation with economic growth and also the overall well-being of the people,” Ind-Ra said in a press release. The PMES is a system to both “evaluate” and “monitor” the performance of government ministries/departments by comparing their actual achievements against predetermined annual targets. Along with introducing the PMES, the government of India also set up a Performance Management Division (PMD) within the Cabinet Secretariat to introduce, execute and supervise the PMES. Ind-Ra expects the new government to not only continue with the existing PMES but also to improve and strengthen it. It said that the PMES needs to be publicised extensively so that stake holders can be made aware of this effort. In a bid to create transparency in governance and make people believe in PMES, the latest performance evaluation reports along with the RFD documents of various ministries/departments should be uploaded on the PMD website. Moreover, to improve the effectiveness of PMES, Ind-Ra suggested inclusion of stakeholders’ suggestions/feedback at the time of RFD formulation/assessment of ministries/departments, and a central law on the lines of the ‘Right to Public Services Act’ introduced in Bihar in April 2011.
