Kerala, Punjab, Chandigarh, and Maharashtra have bagged the top position with the highest scores in the 2020-21 performance grading index (PGI) rankings released for states and union territories (UTs) by the ministry of education, department of school education and literacy on Thursday. The rankings assess states on various indicators for evidence-based comprehensive analysis of school education.
Seven states/UTs — Kerala, Punjab, Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh — have attained level 2 (score 901-950) in 2020-21 as compared to none in 2017-18 and four in 2019-20. Kerala, Punjab, Chandigarh, and Maharashtra have attained the highest scores — 930, 929, 929, and 928.
However, even this time, none of the states could make it to level 1 of the rankings. Arunachal Pradesh emerged as the worst-performing, ending up with a score of 669. Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh are the new entrants to the highest achieved level of any state so far.