PM Modi may implement performance-based incentives for babus

The Prime Minister has already asked his Cabinet colleagues to set a 100-day agenda with focus on efficient governance, delivery and implementation of programmes.

A Performance-Related Incentive (PRI) is defined as variable part of pay which is awarded each year (or on any other periodic basis) depending on performance. PRI schemes are applied at the individual employee level and at the team or group level.

PRI will be in addition to automatic pay increases, grade promotion or service-based increments, various types of allowances which are attached to certain posts or certain working conditions, like overtime allowances and allowances for working in particular geographical areas, according to the UPA government's preliminary draft of PRIS.  

The nodal department for PRIS shall be Department of Expenditure under Ministry of Finance, it said.  Under the scheme, departments become eligible for it only after preparing Results Framework Documents (RFDs) for two years, the draft guidelines said.

An RFD provides a summary of the most important results that a department or ministry expects to achieve during the financial year.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had approved the outline of a Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) for government departments in September 2009.  Under PMES, each department is required to prepare an RFD.  

The government has already put in place guidelines for RFDs for 2014-15.