Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D)

Highlights:

• Recently, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L) of Ministry of Education (MoE) released the “Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D)” report for the year 2018-19 and 2019-20.
• PGI-D assesses the performance of school education system at District level by formulating an index for comprehensive analysis.

• As per PGI-D 2019-20 report, around 3 districts of Rajasthan have scored over 80 per cent in school education performance.
• These districts have achieved ‘Utkarsh’ grade (second highest grade).
• In 2019-20 & 2018-19, none of the districts attained highest grade Daksh.
• Thus, there is a scope for districts to improve their performance further, in future years.
• 3 districts from Rajasthan namely Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Jaipur achieved the second grade.
• Number of districts in the Atti-Uttam grade (third grade) increased from 49 to 86 during 2018-29 and 2019-20.
• Indian Education System is the largest system worldwide, with 15 lakh schools, 97 lakh teachers, and 26 crore students.
• The PGI-D will help the state education departments in identifying gaps at district level and improving their performance in decentralized manner.
• It will reflect the relative performance of all the districts in uniform manner, which in turn will encourage districts to perform better.
• PGI-D comprises of total weightage of 600 points, across 83 indicators.
• These points have been grouped under six categories namely, Effective Classroom Transaction, Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction, School Safety & Child Protection, Infrastructure Facilities and Student’s Entitlements, Governance Process and Digital Learning.