Info-paedia : Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2020-21
Why in News?
Recently, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L),
Ministry of Education released the Performance Grading Index (PGI)
for States/UTs for 2020-21.
About the PGI
It is an index for evidence based comprehensive analysis of
school education system across State/UTs.
This is the 4th edition of the annual report released by DoSE&L since
2017-18.
The PGI structure comprises 1000 points across 70 indicators
grouped into 2 categories viz., Outcomes and Governance Management (GM).
These 2 categories are further sub classified into 5 domains:
Learning Outcomes (LO).
Access (A).
Infrastructure and Facilities (IF).
Equity (E).
Governance Process (GP).
Key Findings
Ladakh has made improvement of 299 points YoY from 2019-20.
It is the highest ever improvement made in single year (moved to
Level 4).
6 States and 1 UT made it to the Level 2 (901-950) in 2020-21.
No State /UT has achieved Level 1 Score (951-1000).
No state has performed below Level 7 in 2020-21.
There were 12 States/UTs below Level 7 in 2017-18.
