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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email MIC boss Samy Vellu announces two new initiatives. One is a KPI for all leaders, specifically for the branches, and secondly, leadership workshop for 150 division leaders. He also mentioned that new members can register online via MIC’s website. However, I can’t find the link to register online till today.
MIC will implement the Key Performance Index (KPI) on all its leaders, particularly its 3,600 branch chairpersons by early next year to gauge their performances, said party president S Samy Vellu today.
He said that although the KPI initiative was mooted several years ago, it could not be implemented, “but now it has become necessary to ensure the party is run more effectively, especially at the grassroots”.
Samy Vellu said the role of branch chairpersons was crucial as the party depended on them to implement its policies and programmes at the grassroots level.
“They branch chairpersons will be evaluated every three months,” he said in a statement.
He said the KPI would also apply to the party’s top leaders and elected representatives in stages.
“We want to know the extent of their contact with the people and how they are performing,” he said, adding that a monitoring team would be established at the MIC headquarters.
Samy Vellu also said the MIC would organise a leadership workshop for its nearly 150 party divisional leaders on Nov 15 this year followed by a series of meetings throughout the country with state and branch leaders.
“This time, we will also invite community leaders and non-governmental organisations in the meeting because they are our partners in social work,” he said.
He said the party embarked on a transformation process since the last general election starting with its rebranding exercise and followed by amendments to its constitution last month.
The amendments include limiting the term of party president and divisional leaders to just nine years or three terms and lowering the number of members before a branch can be set up, from 100 previously to 60.
Samy Vellu said new members could also register via online through the MIC portal and perhaps soon through SMS.
“We are making many changes and more will come in order to strengthen our party,” he added.
