10% less than 180 schools score in digital learning

The Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) 2019-20 shows that schools across India have performed poorly under the category of digital learning, which is the threshold to which the lowest scores are compared.

In the index, as many as 180 districts scored less than 10 per cent on digital learning, 146 districts scored 11 to 20 per cent, while 125 districts had scores between 21 and 30 per cent.

The report also underlines the area of ​​digital learning in the clear rural-urban divide. For instance, while cities in cities like Chandigarh and Delhi scored 25 and 35 out of 50, Bihar’s Araria and Kishanganj scored as low as 2.

Backward districts like Assam’s South Salmara-Mankachar and Tripura’s Dhalai scored 1. The district-wise performance on digital learning was based on a number of schools with computers / laptops, internet facility, student-to-computer ratio and percentage of teachers trained. to use and teach through computers.

In contrast, in terms of learning outcomes, no district scored below 10 per cent, 12 scored between 11 and 20 per cent, while as many as 309 scored between 51 and 60 per cent.

The Center had released the State-wise PGI Index for the year 2019-20 in June 2021. Chandigarh and the States of Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Kerala were the best performers in the index.

“The Covid-19 Pandemic has highlighted the changes that are needed in our existing system of adoption of digital learning as part of mainstream learning and continuing education at home…. is not there in-state PGI.

“Under the digital learning category, there are 20 districts that have shown up to 20 per cent improvement in score and 43 districts have shown improvement over 10 per cent in 2019-20 compared to 2018-19, resulting in grade-level progress,” states The PGI-D report.