National Productivity Day is observed every year in India on February 12.
Context
National Productivity Day is observed every year in India on February 12.
- The planning of your time, skills, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities to help you achieve your goals is considered to be productivity.
Background of National Productivity Council (NPC)
- The NPC is an autonomous organisation established in 1958 under Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry to promote productivity culture in India.
- It was established as a registered society by the Government to stimulate and promote productivity and quality consciousness across all sectors in the country.
- It is a tripartite non-profit organisation (NGO) with equal representation from government, employers and workers’ organisations.
- National Productivity Day also celebrates the formation of the National Productivity Council.
- The NPC is a national institution dedicated to promoting India’s productivity culture.
- It also has representatives from technical and professional institutions including members from local productivity councils and chamber of commerce on its Governing Body.
- It also implements the productivity promotion schemes of the Government and carry out programmes of Tokyo based Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an inter-governmental body of which the Government of India is a founder member.
- The NPC’s mission is to stimulate and promote productivity and quality awareness in all sectors of the country.
Theme
- From February 12 to 18, the National Productivity Council will be celebrating productivity week across the nation under the theme National Productivity Day 2022 “Self Reliance Through Productivity."
- The Theme of the National Productivity Day 2021 is Udyog Manthan for Productivity.
Significance
- The importance of marking National Productivity Day is to raise awareness of productivity, efficiency, and innovation.
- Raising productivity awareness is an imperative aspect of maximising production with optimal resource utilisation.
