Centre releases district-wise rankings of college training; Kerala, Rajasthan bag prime honours

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Jaipur of Rajasthan have come out with flying colors within the newest district-wise rating of college training launched by the central authorities on Monday. These are the one districts within the nation to have secured a spot within the second-highest “Utkarsh” class within the 2019-20 index.

The Department of School Education and Literacy, underneath the Ministry of Education, launched the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-19 and 2019-20, which assesses the efficiency of the varsity training system on the district stage by creating an index for complete evaluation.

Districts scoring greater than 90 per cent are categorised as “Daksh”. “Utkarsh” is the second-highest-ranking scoring 81 to 90 per cent, adopted by “Ati Uttam” (71 to 80 per cent), “Uttam” (61 to 70 per cent), Prachesta-1 (51 to 60 per cent), Prachesta-2 (41 to 50 per cent), Prachesta-3 (31 to 40 per cent), Akanshi-1 (21 to 30 per cent) and Akanshi-2 (11 to 2p per cent).

According to the grading index, no district may make it into the very best “Daksh” grade. The three Rajasthan districts are the primary to turn out to be “Utkarsh” within the rating system launched just lately.

Among the southern states, solely three districts of Karnataka – Chitradurga, Belagavi and Dharwad – bought the “Ati Uttam” rating.

In Kerala, all of the districts barring Idukki are within the “Ati Uttam” class.

Only two districts in Tamil Nadu – Dharmapuri and Villupuram – have gotten the “Ati Uttam” class.

The variety of districts within the third-highest “Ati Uttam” class has virtually doubled from 49 in 2018-19 to 86 in 2019-20. A marginal rise was seen within the fourth-highest “Uttam” class with 276 districts in comparison with 267 within the earlier version.

The different rankings embody “Pracheshta 1-2 and 3” following Akanshi -1 and Akanshi-2.

The solely district within the lowest Akanshi-2 class is Shi Yomi of Arunachal Pradesh.

The Performance Grading Index (PGI) for 2019-20 covers 733 districts in opposition to 725 in 2018-19.

Apart from the general efficiency, the districts are additionally judged on sub-categories like outcomes, efficient classroom transactions, infrastructure, faculty security and little one safety, digital studying and governance processes.

The efficiency index claimed that eight districts have improved their PGI rating by greater than 20 per cent from 2018-19 and 14 districts bettered by 10 per cent. More than 400 districts made lower than 10 per cent enchancment.

The goal of PGI-D is to assist the districts to prioritise areas for intervention at school training and thus enhance to succeed in the very best grade.