Why in news?
The Education Ministry recently released the latest edition of the Performance Grading Index (PGI).
What is the Index for?
- The Education Ministry released the first PGI in 2019 for the reference year 2017-18, to measure the performance of states in school education.
- The objective is to help the states prioritise areas for intervention in school education.
- States are only graded and not ranked.
- This is to avoid discouraging the practice of one improving only at the cost of others and casting a stigma of underperformance on some.
How does it work?