Explanation:

Recently, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education released the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) combined report for 2020-21 & 2021-22.

• It assesses the performance of school education system at the district level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis.

• Based on the success of State PGI, 83-indicator based PGI for District (PGI-D) has been designed to grade the performance of all districts in school education.

• The data is filled by districts through online portal.

• It is expected to help the state education departments to identify gaps at the district level and improve their performance in a decentralized manner.

• The indicator-wise PGI score shows the areas where a district needs to improve.

• PGI-D report for 2018-19 and 2019-20 has been released so far, the current one is combined report for 2020-21 & 2021-22.

• The PGI-D structure comprises of total weightage of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under 6 categories viz., Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction, Infrastructure Facilities & Student’s Entitlements, School Safety & Child Protection, Digital Learning and Governance Process.

• These categories are further divided into 12 domains.

• PGI-D grades the districts into ten grades viz., Highest achievable Grade is Daksh, which is for Districts scoring more than 90% of the total points in that category or overall.

• The lowest grade in PGI-D is called Akanshi-3 which is for scores upto 10% of the total points. Ultimate objective of PGI-D is to help the districts to priorities areas for intervention in school education and thus improve to reach the highest grade.

Hence only statement 1st is correct.