Education Ministry On 9th July 2023, Sunday released the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) combined report for 2020-21 and 2021-22. The report assesses the performance of the school education system at the District level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.

The Ministry said Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with about 14.9 lakh schools, 95 lakh teachers, and nearly 26.5 crore students from varied socio-economic backgrounds. It devised Performance Grading Index for States and released the report for the reference years 2017-18 to 2020-21. Based on the success of State PGI, 83-indicator-based PGI-D has been designed to grade the performance of all districts in school education.
 
The Ministry said the ultimate objective of PGI-D is to help the Districts to prioritise areas for intervention in school education and thus improve to reach the highest grade.