Rajasthan’s Sikar highest performing district in school education across India

No district in the country achieves the top grade

Rajasthan’s Sikar is the top performer followed by Jhunjhunu and Jaipur in the Union government’s index for performance of school education system at the district level.

The Ministry of Education's Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2019 released on Monday studied 83 indicators grouped in six categories. These categories are outcomes, effective classroom transaction, infrastructure facilities and student’s entitlements, school safety and child protection, digital learning and governance process.

The three districts have figured in the 'Utkarsh' category (scoring 81-90% on a scale of 100) with Junjhunu scoring the maximum (236 out of 290) in learning outcomes.

Also, in the second grade 'Ati-uttam', Rajasthan is significantly ahead of the second and third top States with 24 of its districts in this category.

PGI-D grades the districts into 10 grades with the highest achievable grade being 'Daksh', which is for districts scoring more than 90% of the total points in that category or overall.

'Utkarsh' category is for districts with scores between 81-90% followed by 'Ati-Uttam' (71-80%), 'Uttam' (61-70%), 'Prachesta-I' (51-60%), 'Prachesta-II' (41-50%) and 'Pracheshta III' (31-40%).

The lowest grade in PGI-D is called 'Akanshi-3' which is for scores up to 10% of the total points.