National Productivity Day 2022

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.