Pros And Cons Of Privatization In Education

long with other major sectors, privatization has established its roots in education as well. In India as 70% of population resides in rural areas, studying the impact of private schools in rural India especially elementary schools becomes important. This paper does the same.

Objective

One of the objectives of the article is to analysis role of private enterprise in education in India especially rural India, through some parameters like- number of private schools, enrolment of children therein & pattern of enrolments. Another objective of the article is to study about various variables on which choice of school-whether public or private, depends. This paper also aims to acknowledge the readers about pros and cons of both, public as well as

Even then, the authors have presented and explained the NCERT data (Table 7.1 - 7.4) and not the household surveys. According to table 7.1, in 1993, only 2.6% of all rural primary school were attending private schools, but according to household survey data for the same year, 10.1% were doing so. So household survey data give a picture far closer to the truth than official statistics, since there’s no incentive for the households to hide the details or to lie.(Kingdon, Oxford Review of Economic Policy Vol.23, 2007 pg 168-195) . Also, the authors should have included reports of Annual Status of Education Report ( ASER ) Centre and District Information System of Education( DISE ). This would have helped to get better idea about the issues of number of private and government schools, enrolment ratio, and also children learning outcome, as ASER is the only official survey in India which gives information about it.( ASER

Also it cannot satisfy the differentiated demand of diversified population of India. So co-existence of private schools along with public schools is must if India wants to achieve the goal of universalisation of education.

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