Kerala and Tamil Nadu have retained their places as the best states in terms of quality of school education as per NITI Aayog’s School Education Quality Index (SEQI).
While Kerala was given a total evaluation point of 82.2%, Tamil Nadu got 73.4%.
SEQI report analysed the quality of education for 2016-2017 based on 30 indicators and under 2 categories
Category 1: Outcomes
Domain 1: Learning outcomes
Domain 2: Access outcomes
Domain 3: Infrastructure and facilities for outcomes
Domain 4: Equity outcomes
Category 2: Governance processes aiding outcomes.
The overall performance has declined in Karnataka and Uttarakhand.
All seven union territories have shown an improvement in their overall performance scores.
The performance and ranks have decreased in Mizoram, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
The most-populous Uttar Pradesh was ranked at the bottom position in overall performance.
This is the first time that the government think tank has come up with a report on the educational progress.