Performing Grade Index 2021-22
26-08-2023
01:20 PM
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What’s in today’s article?
- Why in News?
- India’s School Education System
- What is the Performance Grading Index (PGI) on School Education?
- PGI 2.0
- Highlights of the PGI for the year 2021-22
Why in News?
- According to the Union Ministry of Education’s Performing Grade Index (PGI), Chandigarh and Punjab emerged as the best performers in school education for the year 2021-22.
India’s School Education System:
- The Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.5 million schools, 8.5 million teachers and 250 million children from varied socio-economic backgrounds.
- The Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) adopted by India in 2015 seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030.
- Such a goal will require proper assessment and monitoring of indicators set out in goals.
What is the Performance Grading Index (PGI) on School Education?
- It was designed by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, and launched in 2017.
- It helps States/UTs to identify specific interventions required to make transformational changes in school education.
PGI 2.0:
- In the last 4 years, States/UTs reached saturation level in many indicators of PGI, and few indicators became redundant due to rapid changes adopted during COVID-19 period.
- Certain policy initiatives and interventions introduced post implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 also necessitated for aligning indicators of PGI for proper tracking the progress.
- Therefore, indicators of PGI (70) have undergone transformational changes in 2021-22 and were renamed as PGI-2.0.
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Highlights of the PGI for the year 2021-22:
- The two domains - access and equity - are the only ones where any state (Delhi) managed the top grade (Daksh).
- For learning outcomes, one of the key indicators of good performance, the top performers are Punjab, Chandigarh and Rajasthan while no states/ UTs could achieve the top grade for teacher education and training.
- In 2019-20, Punjab, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Kerala topped the index, while the index during the Covid period (2020-21) recorded Kerala, Maharashtra and Punjab as the best performing states.
- Punjab and Chandigarh find place in the sixth grade (Prachesta- 2) while six states could make it to the seventh grade (Prachesta-3).
- The three poorest performing states/UTs are Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
- Highlighting the inter-state disparity, the maximum and minimum scores obtained by states/ UTs in 2021-22 are 659.01 and 420.64 respectively.
- The deviation of 23.8% indicates that states like Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram have to put more effort to reach the top slot.
- This disparity was 51% in 2017-18 indicating that PGI also helped bridge the performance gap among states/UTs over the years.
Q1) What is the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan?
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (2001-02) is Government of India's flagship programme for achievement of Universalization of Elementary Education in a time bound manner, as mandated by 86th constitutional amendment making free and compulsory Education to the Children of 6-14 years age group, a Fundamental Right.
Q2) What is Article 21A of the Indian Constitution?
The Constitution (86th Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of 6-14 years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the State may, by law, determine.
Source: Performing Grade Index out: Chandigarh, Punjab top performers in school education | ToI