The Education Ministry on Monday released the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-19 and 2019-20 prepared by the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), to assess the performance of the school education system at the district level. According to the Education Ministry, the Indian Education System is one of the world’s largest with 15 lakh schools, 97 lakh teachers, and nearly 26 crore students. The DoSE&L devised the Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States and released reports for the reference years 2017-18 to 2019-20. Based on the success of State PGI, 83-indicator-based PGI-D has been designed to grade the performance of all 733 districts. The data is filled by districts via an online portal. The PGI-D is expected to help the State education departments identify gaps at the district level and improve their performance in a decentralised manner. The indicator-wise PGI score shows where a district needs to improve. The PGI-D will reflect relative performance of districts in a uniform scale.
The PGI-D’s structure comprises total weightage of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under six 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, Learning Management, Learning Enrichment Activities, Infrastructure, Facilities, Student Entitlements, School Safety and Child Protection, Digital Learning, Funds convergence and utilisation, Enhancing CRCs Performance, Attendance Monitoring Systems and School Leadership Development.