The Union Ministry Of Education has released the Performance Grade Index for the year 2021-22. The report released on Friday reveals Chandigarh and Punjab as the best performers in imparting school education across all spectrums like learning outcomes, equity and infrastructure among others. Chandigarh and Punjab have been ranked sixth on the index. States and UTs are rated by the PGI in ten categories. No state or UT was able to place in the top five. Punjab and Chandigarh are at the “Prachesta -2” level, where a state needs to receive 641 to 700 out of a possible 1,000 points.
At the level below them, there are six states and UTs. With scores ranging from 581-640, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu have been assigned to the seventh level, Prachesta-3. With scores ranging from 401 to 460 (Akanshi-3), Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and Mizoram are included at the bottom of the list. Kerala, Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh were the top-performing states in 2017, scoring between 901 and 950 points out of a possible 1,000.
This year, no state or union territory is able to make place at top 1. As mentioned in the report the major aim of the Performance Grade Index is creation of an environment that would nudge each state and UT to improve its performance continuously. The report further mentions that the difference between the maximum and minimum scores that each state received was 259, or 39% of the minimum points. Hence in such circumstances, Arunachal Pradesh needs to work harder to take the top spot. This discrepancy was 51% in 2017–18, showing that PGI also assisted in closing the performance gap over time, maybe as a result of government initiatives like the look East strategy claims the Union Education Report.
The decrease in ratings was attributed by the government to a modification of the evaluation criteria. This year, the ministry reweighed the current criterion and added a new one in response to criticism that the PGI assessment was “heavily skewed towards measures related to governance procedures rather than the quality index.”
Therefore, the ministry has given the “Learning Outcomes and Quality” indication 240 points, up from 180 last year, and the “Infrastructure” indicator 190 points, up from 150 last year. From 230 to 260 points, the equity criterion now receives a higher rating. The government has decreased the weight placed on governance procedures from 360 to 130 points in order to account for the three indicators’ growing prominence. This year also saw the introduction of a new metric, teacher training, which carries a 100-point weighting.
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