The Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L) on June 27 released the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-19 and 2019-20 which assesses the performance of school education system at the District level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.
Key features of PGI-D
The PGI-D structure comprises of total weight age of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under 6 categories viz., Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction, Infrastructure Facilities & Student’s Entitlements, School Safety & Child Protection, Digital Learning and Governance Process.
These categories are further divided into 12 domains, viz., Learning Outcomes and Quality (LO), Access Outcomes (AO), Teacher Availability and Professional Development Outcomes (TAPDO), Learning Management (LM), Learning Enrichment Activities (LEA), Infrastructure, Facilities, Student Entitlements (IF&SE), School Safety and Child Protection (SS&CP), Digital Learning (DL), Funds convergence and utilization (FCV), Enhancing CRCs Performance (CRCP), Attendance Monitoring Systems (AMS) and School Leadership Development (SLD).
10 grades
The assessment grades the districts into 10 grades. PGI-D grades the districts into ten grades viz., Highest achievable Grade is Daksh, which is for Districts scoring more than 90% of the total points in that category or overall. It is followed by ‘Utkarsh’ (81% to 90%), ‘Ati Uttam’ (71% to 80%), ‘Uttam’ (61% to 70%), ‘Prachesta-1’ (51% to 60%) and ‘Prachesta-2’ (41% to 50%). The lowest grade in PGI-D is ‘Akanshi-3’ which is for scores upto10% of the total points.
The top five achievers are Chandigarh, Gujarat, Kerala, Delhi, and Maharashtra.
Three districts from Rajasthan performed the best in the performance grading index for districts (PGI-D) assessment of the school education system. Sikar, Jhunjhunu, and Jaipur — figured in ‘Utkarsh’ grade (scoring 81-90% on a scale of 100) in 2019-20.
None of the districts figured in the highest ‘Daksh’ grade in both these years.
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