Delhi govt to put digital performance review system in place for its staff

The Delhi government will soon do away with the manual process of annual performance review of its employees and completely digitise the system from this year, said senior government officials on Sunday

The Delhi government will soon do away with the manual process of annual performance review of its employees and completely digitise the system from this year, said senior government officials on Sunday.

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Between August 15 and 21, the government issued circulars to its departments, directing them to upload employee databases on a portal by the end of this month in a format that was prescribed by the government’s services department on June 29, said the circular, copies of which HT has seen.

“From this year, employees will fill up their performance review forms online and reporting managers will review and forward filed online with the help of a digital infrastructure that has been developed. Directions have been issued to all departments asking them to upload databases with employee details on a portal for which links have been provided to department heads. This step marks the beginning of the larger process,” said a senior government official.

Delhi government has a collective strength of around 400,000 employees across all its departments which includes finance, administration, revenue, education, health, transport, planning, home, urban development, environment, social welfare, power, water, public works, food and art & culture among others.

“It is a larger part of the government’s paperless governance policy. If a paperless budget could be tables in the assembly then why not paperless performance review of employees, which is traditionally an annual affair? Its importance was highlighted by the difficulties witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic,” said a second senior government official.

From this year, the Delhi government also made it mandatory for employees to fill in their health details -- with details on surgeries and annual health check up assessment details -- in the annual performance review form.