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28/06/22 05:35 AM IST

First ever report on Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for the year 2018-19 and 2019-20

In News 
  • The Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education released the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-19 and 2019-20which assesses the performance of school education system at the District level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.
Major Highlights 
  • Three districts from Rajasthan performed the best in the Centre’s first-ever performance grading index for districts (PGI-D) assessment of the school education system.
  • The three districts — Sikar, Jhunjhunu, and Jaipur — figured in ‘Utkarsh’ grade (scoring 81-90% on a scale of 100) in 2019-20 in contrast to a year before when no district featured in that category.
  • The three districts scored 488, 486 and 482 points respectively, out of 600.
  • Under the digital learning category, 20 districts have shown over 20% improvement while 43 districts bettered their score by over 10% during 2019-20 as compared to 2018-19.
  • The districts with lowest scores (1 out of 50) in this category were South Salmara-Mankachar (Assam), Alirajpur (Madhya Pradesh), North Garo Hills and South Garo Hills in Meghalaya, and Khowai (Tripura) in 2019-20.
  • In infrastructural facilities, 478 districts improved their score in 2019-20 as compared to 2018-19.
Ranking System
  • While the ministry has been releasing the PGI report at state-levels since 2017-18, this is the first time a district-wise report card has been released.
  • The report graded 725 districts for 2018-19 and 733 districts for 2019-20.
  • The PGI-D assessed district-level performance in school education based on the data collected from various sources, including Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE +), National Achievement Survey (NAS), 2017 and data provided by respective districts.
  • The PGI-D structure comprises a total weight age of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under six categories: 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.
  • Two categories — digital learning and effective classroom transaction — have been added in the backdrop of Covid-19 pandemic.
  • The assessment grades the districts into 10 grades. The 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.
  • None of the districts figured in the highest ‘Daksh’ grade in both these years.
  • In the ‘Ati Uttam’ grade, the number of districts increased from 49 to 86 during 2018-19 to 2019-20 showing “remarkable improvements”.
  • Rajasthan has the highest 24 districts in this grade, followed by Punjab (14), Gujarat (13), and Kerala (13).
  • PGI-D also aims to provide insights into the status of school education in all the districts, including key levels that drive their performance in critical areas and to catalyze transformational change in the field of school education.
Significance 
  • The PGI-D is expected to help the state education departments to identify gaps at the district level and improve their performance in a decentralized manner. The indicator-wise PGI score shows the areas where a district needs to improve.
  • The PGI-D will reflect the relative performance of all the districts in a uniform scale which encourages them to perform better.
Source- PIB 

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