In news– Ministry of Education(MoE) has released the first ever report on the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for the year 2018-19 and 2019-20.
About PGI-D-
- Devised and released by the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), MoE, 83-indicator based PGI-D assesses the performance of the school education system at the District level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.
- The data is filled by districts through an online portal.
- The indicator-wise PGI score shows the areas where a district needs to improve.
- It will reflect the relative performance of all the districts in a uniform scale which encourages them to perform better.
- The PGI-D structure comprises 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.
- Access Outcomes.
- Teacher Availability and Professional Development Outcomes (TAPDO).
- Learning Management.
- Learning Enrichment Activities.
- Infrastructure, Facilities, Student Entitlements.
- School Safety and Child Protection (SS&CP).
- Digital Learning.
- Funds convergence and utilization.
- Enhancing CRCs Performance.
- Attendance Monitoring Systems.
- School Leadership Development.
- 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 upto 10% of the total points.
- Ultimate objective of PGI-D is to help the districts to prioritise areas for intervention in school education and thus improve to reach the highest grade.
- The PGI-D 2020-21 is presently under compilation.
Source: PIB
