Srinagar, Jul 08: Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed a significant progress in its overall performance in the Union Ministry of Education’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 for 2025-26, increasing its score by 47 points over the previous year and moving up one grade.
However, the Union Territory, as per the PGI for States/UTs Report for 2025-2026, released by the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, Government of India, continues to remain in the ‘Akanshi-1’ category, indicating that substantial improvements are still needed across key school education indicators.
The Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 serves as the union government’s annual assessment framework to monitor the quality of school education and identify areas requiring policy intervention in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
The details reveal that J&K’s overall PGI score increased from 500.2 in 2024-25 to 547.0 in 2025-26, resulting in an improvement from Akanshi-2 (411-460) to Akanshi-1 (461-510) grade.
The PGI 2.0 evaluates States and Union Territories across six domains: Learning Outcomes & Quality, Access, Infrastructure & Facilities, Equity, Governance Processes, and Teacher Education & Training, with a maximum score of 1,000.
Domain-wise, Jammu and Kashmir scored 62.3 out of 80 in Learning Outcomes, 53.8 out of 80 in Access, 80.28 out of 190 in Infrastructure & Facilities, 210.5 out of 260 in Equity, 76.7 out of 130 in Governance Processes and 63.4 out of 100 in Teacher Education & Training.
The UT secured Akanshi-1 grade in Learning Outcomes, Uttam-3 in Access, Prachesta-2 in Infrastructure & Facilities, Uttam-2 in Equity, Prachesta-1 in Governance Processes and Uttam-3 in Teacher Education & Training.
In the Teacher Education & Training domain, J&K scored 63.4, placing it in the Uttam-3 (61-70.9) category.
According to the details, only 11 States and UTs achieved this grade, while just two, including Kerala, reached the top Utkarsh category.
The report shows that Chandigarh emerged as the best-performing State/UT with an overall score of 766, becoming the only one to enter the Uttam-3 category, while several States and UTs continued to remain in lower performance bands.
