Updated on Monday, November 02, 2009, 21:43 IST Tags:PMO, Manmohan

New Delhi: In an effort to monitor and improve the functioning of various ministries, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) will undertake an evaluation of their performance and bring out "result framework documents".

A series of six workshops for a cluster of ministries would be organised and the first one on Agriculture and Rural Development would be held for two days from tomorrow.

Senior officials from the ministries and other departments would attend the brain-storming session.

The other workshops would cover Human Research Development and Health, Resource Management covering Power, Petroleum and Energy, Trade, Industry and Services, Infrastructure and Social Sector, PMO sources said.

The Ministries would submit their reports to the Cabinet Secretary by this month-end and a mid-term review would be undertaken of the ministries after which an ad hoc task force comprising leading experts would be constituted by the Cabinet Secretary to review the performance.

"The Prime Minister has approved the preparation of Result Framework Documents for all departments of the government as part of the comprehensive Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES)," an official release said.

Initially, 59 departments would be preparing result framework documents and this would be extended to cover in phases all other departments, it said.

Bureau Report