Performance Grading Index of School Education for Districts

Background

The Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with about 14.9 lakh schools, 95 lakh teachers, and nearly 26.5 crore students from varied socio-economic backgrounds. Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education devised Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States and released report for the reference years 2017-18 to 2020-21. 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 data is filled by districts through online portal. 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. PGI-D report for 2018-19 and 2019-20 has been released so far the current one is combined report for 2020-21 & 2021-22.

Methodology

The PGI-D structure comprises of total weight age of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under 6 categories viz., 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, viz.,  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) and School Leadership Development (SLD).

PGI-D grades the districts into ten grades  viz., 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.

PGI for districts report - 2020-21 & 2021-22

Being the Covid Pandemic years and learning outcomes based on NAS 2021 have impacted the performance of districts during 2020-21 to 2021-22 as compared to 2019-20. None of the districts attained top two grade viz., Daksh and Utkarsh during 2020-21 & 2021-22 implying there is ample scope for the districts to further improve their performance in future years. Year wise performance analysis of districts reveals that, 79 districts made consistent improvement in PGI-D scores in last 4 years viz., 2018-19 to 2021-22, whereas 25 districts consistently performed poorly during the same period. Inspite of Covid pandemic at its peak in 2021-22, 290 districts have made notable improvement in their performance when compared 2019-20 (pre-pandemic) with 2021-22. 

Overall 194 districts have made grade level improvement in 2021-22 as compared to 2018-19, and of these 194, 7 districts had highest performance securing 3 grade jumps in 2021-22 as compared 2018-19, 23 districts improved their performance by securing upward shift of two grades in 2021-22, 164 districts improved their grade by one level in 2021-22 as compared to 2018-19. Total of 375 districts remained in the same grade in 2021-22 as compared to 2018-19 and remaining 158 district’s performance deteriorated during 2021-22 as compared to 2018-19.

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Previous Reports

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Source : Ministry of Education