Relevance:
epartment of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL) under Ministry of Education released Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2020-21 recently.
About PGI:
- Governing Principle – States are graded and not ranked to discourage the practice of one improving only at the cost of others, “thereby casting a stigma of underperformance on the latter”.
- 1st PGI – released in 2017-18.
- Total weightage – 1000 points
- 70 indicators under 2 Categories – Outcome and Governance Management(GM).
- 5 domains –
- Learning Outcomes (LO)
- Access (A)
- Infrastructure& Facilities (IF)
- Equity (E)
- Governance Process (GP)
Key findings:
- Improvements over previous years:
- The top-most score in 2017-18 was Level IV which improved to Level II in 2020-21.
- No state has performed below Level VII in 2020-21 whereas in 2017-18 12 States/UTs were below Level VII
- Best Achievers: 7 States and UTs have attained level II.
- Inter-State Disparity: Kerala obtained the maximum score (928) and Arunachal Pradesh minimum (669).
About Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D):
- It assesses the performance of the school education system at the district level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.
- Total weightage – 600 points
- 83 indicators under 6 categories – Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction, Infrastructure Facilities & Student’s Entitlements, School Safety & Child Protection, Digital Learning and Governance Process. (12 domains)
- 10 Assessment Grades – Daksh > Utkarsh > Ati Uttam > Uttam > Prachesta-1 > Prachesta-2 > Prachesta-3 > Akanshi-1 > Akanshi-2 > Akanshi-3.
Reference: The Hindu
