Union Ministry of Education releases Performance Grading Index for States

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The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education released the Performance Grading Index (PGI) report for States/UTs, an index for evidence based comprehensive analysis of school education system in State/UTs.

An Overview of the news:

• According to PGI, even though the states have been successful to a great extent in recent years in connecting most of the children to schools, they are still far behind in the standards of teaching-learning and quality.

PGI 2.0:

• This year's report released by the Ministry of Education has been named PGI 2.0.

Punjab and Chandigarh on top in overall ranking:

• No state has been found in the top-5 category of PGI. Punjab and Chandigarh have been placed at the top position with the highest number of points in the overall ranking of PGI.
• While on the parameters of learning outcome and quality, Rajasthan has also topped with Punjab and Chandigarh with the highest marks.

Six Standards and Ten Categories:

• The Ministry has set six standards and ten categories in place of the earlier five standards and eight categories to determine the performance of the states in school education, in which the subject of teacher education has been added anew.
• In these indexes, the weightage (marks) given on the basis of government work has been reduced.

Six Standards of PGI 2.0:

• Among the six parameters on the basis of which this grade of states has been prepared,
• Learning Outcome and Quality,
• Access to School
• Infrastructure and Facilities,
• Equality,
• Governance Management and
• Includes teacher education and training.
• States have been given marks on the basis of 73 different parameters of all these.

Ten categories of PGI:

• The ten categories that have been created under PGI, which is based on 1000 marks, include:
• Daksha (941-1000)
• Utkarsh (881-940)
• Ati Uttam(821-880)
• Uttam (761-820)
• Pracheshta-1(701-760)
• Prachesta-2 (641-700)
• Pracheshta-3 (581-640)
• Aspirant-1 (521-580)
• Aspirant- 2 (461-520) and
• Akankshi-3 (401-460).

No state in top five:

• In the PGI-2.0 report for the year 2021-22, there is no state in the top-5 categories in the overall ranking, while Punjab and Chandigarh have found place in the sixth category i.e. Prachesta-2.
• Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu were in the seventh category i.e. Prachesta-3.
• Thirteen states have made it to the eighth category of overall ranking i.e. Aspirational-1, including Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Sikkim, West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Daman and Dadar Nagar Haveli is included.
• 12 states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand have made it to the ninth category i.e. Akankshi-2.