Correspondent
SHILLONG, JUL 8: Meghalaya has achieved a historic milestone in school education by moving out from Akanshi-3 to Akanshi-1 in the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 in the latest school assessment by the Union Ministry of Education, State Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui said on Wednesday.
According to the PGI 2.0 report for 2025–26, Meghalaya has improved its overall score from 448 in 2024-25 to 525.71 in 2025-26, a jump of two grades in a single year. “Meghalaya has risen above the lowest grade since the inception of the PGI. It is a historic milestone for our State in school education reflecting Meghalaya’s emergence from the bottom tier into the mainstream group of improving States,” Rymbui told reporters.
Meghalaya now shares the Akanshi-1 category with States such as Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Tripura, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.
Rymbui said the state’s score has steadily improved over the last four assessment cycles-from 401.62 in 2022-23 to 417.90 in 2023-24, 448 in 2024-25, and 525.7 in 2025-26—an overall increase of more than 124 points. He attributed the achievement to sustained educational reforms undertaken by the State government over the past eight years, with particularly focused interventions during the last three years.
“This achievement demonstrates that consistent policy reforms, improved governance, investment in school infrastructure, teacher capacity building, and evidence-based planning are beginning to yield measurable results,” the minister said. Describing the state’s achievement as encouraging, Rymbui said, “It is not the destination but the beginning of a new phase of educational transformation.”
He also reiterated the Education Department’s commitment to achieving progressively higher PGI grades in the coming years and to building a school education system that delivers equitable, inclusive, and high-quality education for every child in Meghalaya.