Performance Grading Index 2.0

July 10, 2023

Performance Grading Index 2.0, for the year 2021-22, was recently released by Ministry of Education for States/UTs.
Performance Grading Index (PGI) is a tool to provide insights on the status of school education in States and UTs including key levers that drive their performance and critical areas for improvement.
The first PGI was released in 2017-18.
Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL) has designed the PGI to catalyse transformational change in the field of school education.
The PGI evaluation classifies States and UTs into grade/ levels, as opposed to ranking.
The PGI 2.0 structure comprises of 1000 points across 73 indicators grouped into 2 categories, Outcomes, Governance Management (GM).
These categories are further divided into 6 domains, viz.,
- Learning Outcomes (LO),
- Access (A),
- Infrastructure & Facilities (IF),
- Equity (E),
- Governance Process (GP) &
- Teachers Education and Training (TE&T).
PGI 2.0 aims to propel States & UTs towards undertaking multi-pronged interventions to achieve optimal education outcomes in terms of improving quality.
PGI 2.0 is aligned with new initiatives of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, to monitor indicators relating to Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals.
PGI 2.0 classified states/UTs into 10 grades, where highest achievable grade is ‘Daksh’ and lowest grade is ‘Akanshi-3’.
Grades have been aligned with the PGI – District to have uniformity and better comparability.
In PGI 2.0, the data source for many of the indicators has been the data from UDISE+ and the grades have been aligned with the PGI – District to have uniformity and better comparability.
Chandigarh and Punjab have been adjudged the best performers.
- Both fall in the 6^th grade – Prachesta 2 (score 641-700)
The 3 poorest performing States/UTs Akanshi – 3 in PGI 2.0 are Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram.