Sikar in Rajasthan tops school grading index at district level

• Students in around 61 per cent districts of India had very little exposure to digital learning according to a Ministry of Education report.

Highlights of Performance Grading Index for districts

• Top performer: Rajasthan’s Sikar, followed by Jhunjhunu and Jaipur
• Categories.
• ‘Utkarsh’ category is for districts with score between 81-90%
• ‘Ati-Uttam’ (71-80%)
• ‘Uttam’ (61-70%)
• ‘Prachesta-I’ (51-60%)
• ‘Prachesta-II’ (41-50%)
• Pracheshta III’ (31-40%).
• 12 States and UTs do not have single district in the ‘Ati-uttam’ and ‘Uttam’ categories
• These include seven States from North East region.
• Schools across India performed poorly under digital learning category.
• Rural-urban divide in digital learning.
• Cause:
  • limited availability of computers
  • Internet facilities
• Learning outcomes: no district scored below 10 per cent.
• State-wise PGI index for the year 2019-20
• Best performing states: Chandigarh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Prelims take away

• Performance Grading Index