⇒ 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 2019-20 on 27 June 2022.
- The PGI-D report assesses the performance of school education system at the district level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.
- The PGI-D report Graded 725 districts in 2018-19 and 733 districts in 2019-20 across the States/UTs.
» The Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with about 15 lakh schools, 97 lakh teachers, and nearly 26 crore students from varied socio-economic backgrounds.
» DoSE&L devised Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States and released report for the reference years 2017-18 to 2019-20.
Based on the success of State PGI, 83-indicator based PGI for District (PGI-D) has been designed to grade the performance of all districts in school education.
- 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.
PGI-D Structure:
The PGI-D structure comprises of total weight age of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under 6 categories:
- Outcomes
- Effective Classroom Transaction
- Infrastructure Facilities & Student’s Entitlements
- School Safety & Child Protection
- Digital Learning
- Governance Process
These categories are further divided into 12 domains:
- 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)
- School Leadership Development (SLD)
PGI-D grades the districts into ten grades:
- Highest achievable Grade is Daksh, which is for Districts scoring more than 90% of the total points in that category or overall.
- The lowest grade in PGI-D is called Akanshi-3 which is for scores upto10% of the total points.
» Ultimate objective of PGI-D is to help the districts to priorities areas for intervention in school education and thus improve to reach the highest grade.