Rajasthan’s Sikar is the very best performing district at school schooling adopted by Jhunjhunu and Jaipur, in accordance with the Union Ministry of Education’s Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D). The three districts have figured within the ‘Utkarsh’ class (scoring 81-90 per cent on a scale of 100) with Junjhunu scoring the utmost (236 out of 290) in studying outcomes.
Also, within the second grade ‘Ati-uttam’, Rajasthan is considerably forward of the second and third high states having 24 of its districts on this class.
The different states whose districts have carried out finest within the newest index launched by the Ministry of Education (MoE) on Monday are Punjab with 14 districts in ‘Ati-uttam’ grade (scoring 71-80 per cent on a scale of 100) adopted by Gujarat and Kerala with every having 13 districts on this class.
On the opposite hand there are 12 states and Union Territories which don’t have any districts within the Ati-uttam and Uttam classes which embody seven of the eight states from the North East area.
The Ministry on Monday launched the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-19 and 2019-20 which assesses the efficiency of the college schooling system on the district degree by creating an index for complete evaluation.
PGI-D grades the districts into 10 grades with the very best achievable grade being ‘Daksh’, which is for districts scoring greater than 90 per cent of the entire factors in that class or total.
‘Utkarsh’ class is for districts with rating between 81-90% adopted by ‘Ati-Uttam’ (71-80%), ‘Uttam’ (61-70%), ‘Prachesta-I’ (51-60%), ‘Prachesta-II’ (41-50%) and ‘Pracheshta III’ (31-40%). The lowest grade in PGI-D is known as ‘Akanshi-3’ which is for scores as much as 10 per cent of the entire factors.
According to the report for 2019-20 and 2018-19, not one of the districts attained highest grade Daksh in each 2019-20 and 2018-19 implying there may be ample scope for the districts to additional enhance their efficiency in future years.
Three districts reached Utkarsh grade in 2019-20 by attaining greater than 80% of the rating, there was none in 2018-19 on this grade. Furthermore, the variety of districts within the Ati-uttam grade has elevated from 49 to 86 throughout 2018-19 to 2019-20, displaying outstanding enhancements.
“Ultimate objective of PGI-D is to help the districts to priorities areas for intervention in school education and thus improve to reach the highest grade. Eighty three indicator based PGI for District (PGI-D) has been designed to grade the performance of all districts in school education. The data is filled by districts through online portal. The PGI-D is expected to help the state education departments to identify gaps at the district level and improve their performance in a decentralized manner,” a senior MoE official mentioned.
“The indicator-wise PGI score shows the areas where a district needs to improve. The PGI-D will reflect the relative performance of all the districts in a uniform scale which encourages them to perform better,” the official added.
The PGI-D construction contains complete weightage of 600 factors throughout 83 indicators, that are grouped underneath 6 classes— Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction, Infrastructure Facilities and Student’s Entitlements, School Safety and Child Protection, Digital Learning and Governance Process.
These classes are additional divided into 12 domains—Learning Outcomes and Quality (LO), Access Outcomes (AO), Teacher Availability and Professional Development Outcomes (TAPDO), Learning Management (LM), Learning Enrichment Activities (LEA), Infrastructure, Facilities, Student Entitlements (IF&SE), School Safety and Child Protection (SS&CP), Digital Learning (DL), Funds convergence and utilization (FCV), Enhancing CRCs Performance (CRCP), Attendance Monitoring Systems (AMS) and School Leadership Development (SLD).
The PGI-D report graded 725 districts in 2018-19 and 733 districts in 2019-20 throughout the States and UTs. The all India report confirmed that 33 States and UTs have improved their PGI rating in 2019-20 in comparison with the earlier 12 months with Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Punjab and Arunachal Pradesh have improved their rating by greater than 20%.
The solely two states, specifically Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have scored lower than 2018-19.
The Performance Grading Index (PGI) is a software to supply insights on the standing of college schooling in States and UTs at district degree together with key levers that drive their efficiency and demanding areas for enchancment.
The 12 states and UTs which doesn’t have a single district within the Ati-uttam and Uttam are Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Goa, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
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