The Ministry of Education released the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 report for 2022–23 and 2023–24, assessing the performance of States and Union Territories (UTs) in school education.
Performance Grading Index (PGI) was launched in 2017 and revamped as PGI 2.0 in 2021 to align with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
PGI 2.0 evaluates school education using 73 indicators under 2 categories and 6 domains, with scores out of 1,000 and 10 performance levels, from Daksh (highest) to Akanshi-3 (lowest).
For 2023–24, Chandigarh ranked first with 703 points, followed by Punjab (631.1) and Delhi (623.7), while Meghalaya ranked last with 417.9 points.
The assessment uses data from the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021, Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+), and the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM-POSHAN) programme.