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.