Gurugram has yet again topped in school education rankings by securing the highest overall score of 375 out of 600 points, achieving Uttam-3 grade in Haryana as per the report of the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D).
Panchkula finished with 373 points to occupy the runners-up position and bracketed in Uttam-3 category, too. Other districts who occupy the grading include Karnal and Jind, scoring 365 and 360 points, respectively.
The PGI-D report was released by the Union Ministry of Education for the academic year 2024-2025. It assesses 70 plus indicators across six categories: outcomes, effective classroom transactions, infrastructure, school safety, digital learning, and governance processes, with a total of 600 points.
Haryana has secured Prachesta-3 grade in the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 report scoring in the range of 581 to 640 points out of 1000. Haryana scored 591.4 in 2023-2024 and 587.1 in 2024-2025 session to maintain Prachesta-3 grading.
The state’s inclusion in Prachesta-3 band indicates strong, balanced performance, sharing a tier with states like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Assam and Goa.
Gurugram had maintained Uttam-3 grade, yet its score had dived down compared to the previous session. In 2022-2023, it scored 422, and in 2023-24, 429 points. It scored 172/290 in outcomes and 67/90 in effective classroom transactions in 2024-2025. However, it had scored 182/290 in outcomes and 79/90 in effective classroom transactions in 2023-24.
Conversely, the lowest was Nuh getting Prachesta-1 grade with 275 out of 600 points during the 2024-2025 session. Earlier, Nuh had scored 271 in 2023-24 falling in Prachesta-2 grade.
Top-tier districts like Gurugram have successfully leveraged automated attendance, smart classrooms, and ICT infrastructure. Lower-performing southern districts like Nuh were held back by lower baseline learning outcomes in language and mathematics, high student-to-teacher ratios, and lower retention rates in secondary schools.
Mahendragarh, which had landed at the lower Prachesta-2 grade with 308 out of 600 points during 2023-2024, has shown improvement by scoring 345 points to upgrade to Prachesta-1 grading.
Similarly, southern districts Rewari, Palwal and Faridabad emerged as the state’s lowest performers during the previous session, but showed improvement during the 2024-2025 session. Faridabad has upgraded to the Uttam-3 category by grabbing 368 points, sharing space with Gurugram and Panchkula.
Rewari scored 304 in 2023-24 and 356 in 2024-2025, getting Prachesta-2 grade. Others in the same grade included Kurukshetra (358), Kaithal (357), Jhajjar (354), Charkhi Dadri (354), Panipat (353), Sonepat (352), Rohtak (347), Sirsa (344), Fatehabad (342), Ambala (341), Bhiwani (338), Hisar (335), Yamunanagar (326) and Palwal (319).
