Meghalaya Government Pushes to Improve Failing Education Rankings

Shillong: Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma led a second review meeting on June 23 to drag Meghalaya out of the bottom of the national education rankings. The state finished dead last in the Union Ministry of Education's PGI 2.0 report for 2024-25. It managed a meager 448 points out of 1,000.

Government officials spent the meeting hunting for ways to fix infrastructure gaps and faulty reporting systems. School data management remains a primary target. "Improving Meghalaya’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) remains a key priority. Today, we held our second review meeting to assess progress and finalise key action points aimed at strengthening our performance," the Chief Minister said.

The PGI assessment exposed deep rot across learning outcomes, governance, and teacher training. Meghalaya earned only 40.5 out of 130 in governance. It also managed just 47.2 out of 240 in learning outcomes. Neighboring Assam, by contrast, surged ahead into the Prachesta-3 category with a score of 593.6.

Sangma previously suggested the index ignores local realities. He claimed structural quirks, such as multiple schools sharing single campuses with separate registrations, skewed the state's evaluation. He insisted recent reforms are already cutting dropout rates and lifting pass percentages. The administration now demands tighter reporting from schools to prove these improvements in future assessments.