Educational Aspiration of Primary School Child

FIELDWORK SEGMENT (PRM 2010-12)

THEME PAPER

EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS IN RURAL INDIA A COMPARATIVE STUDY ACROSS STATES

Guide: Prof. S.N.Biswas

Submitted by:

Abhijeet Jha
Kamal Deep Antil
Laxmidhar Sundara
Remya TP
Vaibhav Gupta

INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT ANAND
2010
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to express our sincere thanks towards all those people who have helped us in our theme report with their invaluable suggestions from time to time. We would like to thank our theme guide Prof. S. N. Biswas for guiding us all the way and providing useful inputs from time to time. Without his guidance and sincere efforts alongside us, this report would not have seen light of the day.
We would also like to thanks the govt. agencies in our respective states and at village level for providing us with the data required for the report and cooperating with us. Finally last but not the least, all the parents, teachers and the primary level students who helped us with our interviews and questionnaires by providing us the information have contributed in an inexpressible way in the completion of this report and letting us get a comparative analysis of the primary education system and factors affecting them across states.

Abhijeet Jha
Kamal Deep Antil
Laxmidhar Sundara
Remya TP
Vaibhav Gupta

INDEX
1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………..
2. Objectives……………………………………………………………………………………….
3. Status of primary education in India…………………………………………………………… 3.1 Govt. schemes……………………………………………………………………………. 3.2 Literacy level……………………………………………………………………………..
4. Methods of study……………………………………………………………………………….
5. Challenges faced………………………………………………………………………………..
6. State wise data………………………………………………………………………………….. 6.1 Bihar…………………………………………………………………………………….. 6.2 Odisha…………………………………………………………………………………… 6.3 Haryana…………………………………………………………………………………. 6.4 Kerala……………………………………………………………………………………. 6.5