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(The Gist of PIB) Union Education Minister approves the release of Performance Grading Index

(THE GIST OF PIB) Union Education Minister approves the release of Performance Grading Index

Union Education Minister, approved the release of Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20 for States and Union Territories of India.

The Performance Grading Index (PGI) provides grades to the states and Union territories, as opposed to ranks.
Grading, by allowing several states and Union territories to be considered at the same level, eliminates the phenomenon of one improving only at the cost of others, which casts a stigma of underperformance on the latter.
It comprises 70 indicators on aggregate classified in two categories with a maximum score of 1,000.
Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala topped with Meghalaya and Ladakh at the bottom.

Relevance:

It would help them pinpoint the gaps and accordingly prioritise areas for intervention to ensure that the school education system is robust at every level.

Other recent steps to improve quality of school education:

National Achievement Survey (NAS), periodic national surveys of learning achievement of children in classes 3, 5, 8 and 10, conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
India also participates in Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) to be conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2021.
Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) platform for high quality e-learning material.