SHILLONG, MAY 27: Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday said the impact of education reforms undertaken in the last three to four years will begin to show in the Performance Grading Index (PGI) for 2025-2026, expected in June-July.
“Education is a very complicated and sticky subject and there are multiple factors that lead to the PGI ranking that takes place,” Sangma said.
He pointed to structural challenges that affect the state’s ranking. “For us to be able to like for example, the number of schools is that we have, this becomes a challenge for us because in the same building, there are four schools but technically there should be 1 schools, but they have got their own UDISE number and they are registered with government of India and each one then is asses in different manner and the overall performance in each one is reflect in the average of the state which in many factors bring down the numbers,” he said.
Sangma said recent policy decisions were aimed at improving PGI parameters. “The decision we took, like the decision to have a pay structure for SSA teachers and different teachers, is precisely being done to impact the PGI,” he said.
He cited improvements in key indicators.
“Now you will see small things that are being done like when the pass percentage has gone up, our dropout has gone down below than the national average which is 6%,” he said.
Explaining past trends, he added, “Why our dropout was high is because 50% of our students SSLC fail, so the question of them going to class XII does not arise, and that impacts our PGI ranking, there are points for everything.”
The Chief Minister expressed optimism about the upcoming assessment. “So all of these factors have added, the overall quality, please wait for the 2025-2026 assessment that is going to come out in the month of June-July and I am very hopeful that our numbers will go up,” he said.
He cautioned that reforms in education take time to show results. “All the work and decision that we have done in the last 3-4 years to push up education, we will see some impact of that on 2025-2026 PGI ranking because as I said education is a subject where any decision that you take will not have immediate impact, it takes time to show results,” Sangma said.
“We do expect that the decision that we take, I expect that we will see the impact on 2025-2026 and beyond that we will see much better,” he added. “Let us wait, we are aware, we realize that step that we take will have an impact,” Sangma said.
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