Carved from the erstwhile State of Assam, Meghalaya became a full fledged State on January 21,1972. The word ‘Meghalaya’

comes from Sanskrit word ‘the abode of clouds’. Bounded on the North and East by Assam and on the South and West by

Bangladesh, Meghalaya is spread over an area of 22, 429 square kilometres, and lies between 20.1° N and 26.5° N latitude

and 85.49 °E and 92.52 °E longitude.

Area: 22,429 Sq.Kms. Population: 29,64,007 (2011 Census)

Capital: Shillong Language: Khasi, Pnar and Garo

Districts: 11 Community Development Blocks: 39

Hon’ble Governor: Shri V. Shanmuganathan Hon’ble Chief Minister: Dr. Mukul Sangma

Mon-Khmer form of language in Cambodia

Major Mineral Resources

Coal, Limestone, Silimanite, Dolomite, Fireclay, Felspar,

Quartz and Glass-sand.

Principal Forest Produce

Timber, Bamboo, Reed, Cane, Ipecac, Medicinal herbs

and Plants, Cinnamon, Lemon-grass and Thatch-grass.

Principal Agricultural Products

Rice, Maize, Potato, Cotton, Orange, Ginger, Tezpata,

Arecanut, Jute, Mesta, Banana and Pineapple.

Wildlife

Animals: Elephant, Tiger, Leopard, Bear, Panther, Wild

Boar, etc.

Birds: Duck, Hornbill, Myna, etc.

Tourism - Root Bridge Agriculture - Paddy

Tourism - Mawsmai Cave

Agriculture

Animal Husbandry and Veterinary

Arts & Culture

Border Areas Development

Cabinet Affairs

Chief Minister's Secretariat

Commerce & Industries

Communication

Community & Rural Development

Cooperation Department

District Council Affairs

Education

Elections

Excise Registration Taxation Stamps

Finance

Fisheries

Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs

Forests & Environment

General Administration

Governor's Secretariat

Health & Family Welfare

Home (Civil Defence and Home Guards)

Home (Jails)

Home (Passport)

Home (Police)

Housing

Information & Public Relations

Information Technology

Labour

Law

Legal Metrology

Legislative Assembly Secretariat

Mining & Geology

Parliamentary Affairs

Personnel & Administrative Reforms

Planning

Political

Power

Printing & Stationery

Programme Implementation &

Evaluation

Public Health Engineering

Public Works

Revenue & Disaster Management

Secretariat Administration

Sericulture & Weaving

Social Welfare

Soil & Water Conservation

Sports & Youth Affairs

Tourism

Transport

Urban Affairs

Water Resources

List of State Government Department (52 Departments):

Introduction to Performance Monitoring by Dr. Prajapati Trivedi, Secretary to Govt. of India (Performance Management

Division (PMD)) Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India to Dr. Mukul Sangma, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Meghalaya in 2013.

Resolution by Secretaries Committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, Meghalaya to adopt performance

monitoring / management using Performance Management Division’s methodology called Results Framework Document

(RFD).

To kick start adoption of RFD methodology, an RFD Workshop in association with PMD was held during 2013 by way of

preparing 6 RFDs of six State Government Departments.

Programme Implementation & Evaluation Department was identified as the Nodal Department for implementation of

RFD by the State Government Departments in the State. Secretary of the Department was the RFD State Nodal Officer.

Each Department also identified a Departmental RFD Nodal Officer.

Technical interaction sessions were conducted by the Nodal Department with the RFD Nodal Officers from time to time

to build their capacity to prepare good RFDs.

To facilitate adoption of RFD methodology by the State Government Departments, an in-depth RFD Workshop in

association with PMD was held and 41 RFDs of 41 State Government Departments were prepared during 2015-16.

• Most of the Departments have problems in drafting the Vision Statement, the Mission Statement and the Objectives

of RFD.

• Departments are implementing Programmes and Projects whose Vision Statement and Mission Statement belong to

higher level Programmes i.e. at the Government of India level.

• There are projects whose implementation go beyond one year and to make Performance Annual Targets become

cumbersome to certain Departments.

• There is a need to get the involvement of the Political Level and the Senior Management Level while framing the RFDs

from year to year without which the initiative would be futile.

• There could be tendencies that Departments would simply prepare and submit the RFDs but will not be serious to use

it to measure their annual performance.

• There is a need to build up the basic ICT working skills of at least using the Internet by the RFD Nodal Officers so as to

facilitate online submission of RFDs into the online Results Framework Management System.

• There is a need to prepare realistic RFDs and the Results Framework Evaluation Methodology of the PMD is a valuable

resource to make better RFDs and this had helped the RFD Nodal Officers to prepare relatively good RFDs during

2015-16.

• Efforts are being made to take from having an RFD to using an RFD which is our goal in performance monitoring.

SHARE OF RFD EXPERIENCE IN GOVERNMENT OF MEGHALAYA

• RFD Evaluation Methodology helps to quantify the tangible and intangible annual targets.

• RFD Preparation and Online Submission are user-friendly and therefore easy to learn and practice.

• Departments implementing RFD Evaluation Methodology are more focused to results, outcomes & benefits.

• RFD Annual Targets are well within the Plan Horizon and therefore more realistic.

• Departments are oriented towards their Vision and Mission and therefore more productive and transformative.