In the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 released by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education on Friday, Nagaland secured Grade 9 (Category: Akankshi-2) in school education with a score ranging between 461 and 520.
PGI is devised for States and UTs to assess the performance of school education system at the State/UT level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis. PGI – States/UTs was first released for the year 2017-18 and so far, has been released up to the year 2020-21.
According to the Ministry of Education, over the period, many of the indicators in PGI – States/UTs have been outlived and become redundant. Also, the structure of PGI – States/UTs has been heavily tilted towards the indicators related to Governance Processes rather than the quality indicators.
Therefore, the PGI – State structure for 2021-22 has been revised and renamed as PGI 2.0.
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.
The new PGI structure covers 73 indicators, focused more on qualitative assessment besides including digital initiatives and teacher education. The PGI 2.0 structure comprises of 1000 points across 73 indicators grouped into two categories viz., 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 for 2021-22 classified the States/UTs into ten grades viz., highest achievable Grade is Daksh, which is for State/UT scoring more than 940 points out of total of 1000 points. The lowest grade is Akanshi-3 which is for score up to 460.
Depending on the points secured, States and UTs are assigned grades as Daksh (941 – 1000), Utkarsh (881 – 940), Atti-Uttam (821 – 880), Uttam (761 – 820), Prachesta – 1 (701 – 760), Prachesta – 2 (641 – 700) and Prachesta – 3 (581 – 640), Akanshi – 1 (521 – 580), Akanshi – 2 (461 – 520) and Akanshi – 3 (401 – 460).
None of the States/UTs achieved the top five grades (Daksh, Utkarsh, Atti-Uttam, Uttam or Prachesta 1). Eight States/UTs achieved Prachesta 2 and 3, while a total of 13 States got Akanshi-1, which is considered grade 8.
Punjab and Chandigarh were top two state and Union Territory in the sixth grade – Prachesta 2 (score 641-700). The three poorest performing States/UTs Akanshi-3 were Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
Nagaland shared the Akanshi-2 grade with Assam, Bihar, Odisha, J&K, Telangana, Jharkhand, Tripura, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and UP.
PGI 2.0 report: Nagaland secures Grade 9
