7-Jul-2023: Ministry of Education releases report on Performance Grading Index 2.0 for States/UTs for the year 2021-22.
The Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with about 14.9 lakh schools, 95 lakh teachers, and nearly 26.5 crore students from varied socio-economic backgrounds. Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, devised Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States and UTs which assesses the performance of school education system at the State/UT level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis. The PGI - States/UTs was first released for the year 2017-18 and so far, has been released up to the year 2020-21.
Over the period, many of the indicators in PGI – States/UTs have been outlived and become redundant. Also, the structure of PGI – States/UTs has been heavily tilted towards the indicators related to Governance Processes rather than the quality indicators. Therefore, to have more updated base with quality indicators, to align with new initiatives of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, to monitor indicators relating to Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to replace existing indicators which have achieved optimal target, the PGI – State structure for 2021-22 has been revised and renamed as PGI 2.0. In PGI 2.0 , the data source for many of the indicators has been the data from UDISE+ and the grades have been aligned with the PGI - District to have uniformity and better comparability.
30-Jun-2023: Index of Eight Core Industries (Base: 2011-12=100) for May, 2023
The combined Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) increased by 4.3 per cent (provisional) in May 2023 as compared to the Index of May 2022. The production of Cement, Fertilizers, Steel, Coal, and Refinery Products increased in May 2023 over the corresponding month of last year. ICI measures combined and individual performance of production of eight core industries viz. Coal, Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Refinery Products, Fertilizers, Steel, Cement and Electricity. The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 percent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).
Final growth rate of Index of Eight Core Industries for February 2023 is revised to 7.4 per cent. The cumulative growth rate of ICI during April-May 2023-24 reported 4.3 per cent (provisional) as compared to the corresponding period of last year.
The summary of the Index of Eight Core Industries is given below:
- Coal - Coal production (weight: 10.33 per cent) increased by 7.2 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index increased by 8.2 per cent during April to May 2023-24 over corresponding period of the previous year.
- Crude Oil - Crude Oil production (weight: 8.98 per cent) declined by 1.9 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index declined by 2.7 per cent during April to May, 2023-24 over the corresponding period of previous year.
- Natural Gas - Natural Gas production (weight: 6.88 per cent) declined by 0.3 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index declined by 1.5 per cent during April to May, 2023-24 over the corresponding period of previous year.
- Petroleum Refinery Products - Petroleum Refinery production (weight: 28.04 per cent) increased by 2.8 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index increased by 0.7 per cent during April to May, 2023-24 over the corresponding period of previous year.
- Fertilizers - Fertilizers production (weight: 2.63 per cent) increased by 9.7 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index increased by 15.7 per cent during April to May, 2023-24 over the corresponding period of previous year.
- Steel - Steel production (weight: 17.92 per cent) increased by 9.2 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index increased by 12.2 per cent during April to May, 2023-24 over the corresponding period of previous year.
- Cement - Cement production (weight: 5.37 per cent) increased by 15.5 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index increased by 13.7 per cent during April to May, 2023-24 over the corresponding period of previous year.
- Electricity - Electricity generation (weight: 19.85 per cent) declined by 0.3 per cent in May, 2023 over May, 2022. Its cumulative index declined by 0.7 per cent during April to May, 2023-24 over the corresponding period of previous year.
28-Jun-2023: Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil releases Report on Panchayat Development Index at National Workshop on Panchayat Development Index
Report on Panchayat Development Index was released at the hands of Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil at National Workshop on Panchayat Development Index (PDI) here today.
More than 250 participants including Senior Officers of different Ministries and Departments of Government of India, Principal Secretaries along with the Senior Officers of the Departments of Panchayati Raj, Rural Development, Planning & Statistics and Programme Monitoring, Directors of SIRD&PRs, Senior Technical Officers of State NIC and Officials of SDG Cell and other key stake-holders participated in the National Workshop on Panchayat Development Index.