Overview

• No state or union territory secured Daksh, Utkarsh, Uttam or Ati Uttam grades in the 2023-24 assessment, with Chandigarh as the only entrant in the top Pracheshta I band.
• The performance gap between the highest and lowest achieving government schools shrank from 51% to 42% between 2017-18 and 2023-24.
• Assam logged a score of 461–520, placing it tenth from the bottom among 36 states and UTs, and scored just 52.1 in the teacher education and training domain compared with Meghalaya’s 46.8.
• Secondary-level dropout rates in Assam remain high, fueled by poor learning outcomes, lack of student motivation and socio-economic pressures.
• Non-teaching duties such as election work and administrative tasks continue to undermine teacher effectiveness in underperforming states.