Lok Sabha Question No. 1673 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-31
Subject: Performance of School Education System
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Raja Amareshwara Naik, Jayanta Kumar Roy, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

## DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-1673

ANSWERED ON 31/07/2023

## Performance of School Education System

1673. SHRI RAJA AMARESHWARA NAIK: DR. JAYANTA KUMAR ROY:

SHRIMATI SANGEETA KUMARI SINGH DEO:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has released the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 which assesses the performance of school education system at the State/UT level;

(b) if so, the details thereof, indicators-wise and State-wise;

(c) whether none of the States/UTs could achieve the top five grades in the overall category, based on various domains like access, learning outcomes, infrastructure, equity, teachers training;

(d) if so, the reasons therefor; and

(e) the other remedial steps being taken by the Government for intervention to ensure that the school education system is robust at every level?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

## (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a)  to  (d):  The  Department  of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education  has released Performance Grading Index (PGI 2.0) for the year 2021-22 and the same is available at the link https://pgi.udiseplus.gov.in/PGI-State-2021-22-Brochure.pdf.

The  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  (DoSEL),  Ministry  of  Education  has designed a 73-indicator based Performance Grading Index (PGI 2.0) to grade the States/UTs in the field  of  school  education  comprises  of  total  weight  of  1000  points  in  6  domains,  viz.,  Learning Outcomes (LO), Access (A), Infrastructure & Facilities (IF), Equity (E), Governance Process (GP) and  Teacher  Education  &  Training  (TET).  The  grades  attained  by  States/UTs  and  the  list  of indicators  used  for  arriving  the  score  of  PGI  2.0  is  available  at  Annexure  1  and  Annexure  3 respectively in the PGI 2.0 report 2021-22.

Indicators  of  new  PGI-State  2.0  have  been  aligned  to  policy  initiatives  and  interventions introduced  post  implementation  of  National  Education  policy  (NEP)  2020  for  proper  tracking  the progress. In PGI 2.0, qualitative parameters such as learning outcome have gained importance which could affect the score.

(e): The  DoSEL,  Ministry  of  Education  has  shared  the  findings  of  PGI  2.0  report  with  all  the States/UTs for further improvement by prioritizing areas of intervention to ensure that the school education system is robust at every level. Further, Central Government helps States and UTs under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha, which is an overarching scheme of school education covering all levels from pre-primary to senior secondary. Financial assistance is provided to the States and UTs for various activities to improve enrolment in Govt. schools, which include opening/strengthening of new  schools up to senior secondary level, strengthening school infrastructure, setting up, up gradation and running of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) upto clas 12, setting up of residential schools/hostel named Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Avasiya Vidyalayas, transport allowance, undertaking enrolment drives, seasonal hostels/residential camps, provision  of  vocational  education  and  ICT  facilities  in  schools,  etc,  financial  assistance  is  also provided for aids and appliances for children with special needs.

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