All the districts of Delhi are ‘excellent’ in school education, yet why are these districts lagging behind?

MoE Report on School Education: According to a report released by the Ministry of Education on Sunday (July 9), all nine districts of Delhi were in the ‘excellent’ category in school education during 2020-21, while Kerala’s Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram were the best performers during this period. The doer has been told. It was followed by Kannur and Thrissur districts.

The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, on Sunday released the report based on the Performance Rank Index (PGI-D) of the districts for 2020-21 and 2021-22. This report assesses the performance of the school education system at the district level by preparing an index for the purpose of comprehensive analysis.

No district got a place in the two highest grade categories

The performance of the districts has been classified under the ‘Very Good’ category, which is the third best category of PGI-D. No district has found place in the two highest grade categories – ‘Daksha’ and ‘Utkarsh’. Most of the best performing districts are from Rajasthan (26) followed by Gujarat (22) and Punjab (19). All the nine districts of Delhi are in the ‘excellent’ category.

To rank the performance of all the districts in school education, a performance ranking index (PGI-D) of the districts has been prepared by including 83-indicators. In this, the data is filled on behalf of the districts through online portal.

What is the calculation of the performance ranking index of the districts?

It is expected that PGI-D will help state education departments to identify deficiencies at the district level and improve their performance in a decentralized manner. Districts are classified into 10 categories under the PGI-D, with the highest category being ‘proficient’, for districts scoring more than 90 per cent in that category or in aggregate.

The ‘Utkarsh’ category is for districts scoring between 81-90 per cent, followed by ‘Very-Excellent’ (71-80 per cent), ‘Excellent’ (61-70 per cent), ‘Prachesta-I’ (51-70 per cent), 60 percent), ‘Pracheshta-II’ (41-50 percent) and ‘Pracheshta-III’ (31-40 percent) category. The lowest grade in PGI-D is called ‘Akanshi-Three’ which accounts for marks up to 10 percent of the total marks.

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