The Ministry of Education has devised Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 for States and UTs which assesses the performance of school education system at the State/UT level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.
Key points
- The report revealed that PGI, which grades states and UTs in 10 grades, none could manage the requisite score to be in the top five grades. Punjab and Chandigarh as the top two state and Union Territory and fall in the sixth grade – Prachesta 2 (score 641-700).
- Six states and UTs joined grade Prachesta – 3 (score 581- 640). The three poorest performing States/UTs Akanshi – 3 in PGI 2.0 are Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
- The PGI – States/UTs was first released for the year 2017-18 and so far, has been released up to the year 2020-21.
- In PGI 2.0 , the data source for many of the indicators has been the data from UDISE+ and the grades have been aligned with the PGI – District to have uniformity and better comparability.
- The PGI 2.0 structure comprises of 1000 points across 73 indicators grouped into 2 categories viz., Outcomes, Governance Management (GM). These categories are further divided into 6 domains, viz., Learning Outcomes (LO), Access (A), Infrastructure & Facilities (IF), Equity (E), Governance Process (GP) & Teachers Education and Training (TE&T).
- PGI 2.0 for 2021-22 classified the States/UTs into ten grades viz., highest achievable Grade is Daksh, which is for State/UT scoring more than 940 points out of total of 1000 points. The lowest grade is Akanshi-3 which is for score up to 460.
