EDUCATION AND INDIA

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the education level in states and union territories of India. This research puts forth a methodology to provide an explanation for the change in literacy rate with respect to the variables that we have taken. In the context of states and union territories of India, we have done so by integrating the literature on education levels, papers/research material related to education level. Studies on factors affecting education leveled: modern computational techniques and the prerequisite knowledge of econometric models. The firstly paper examinesthe literacy rate of different states and union territories on the basis of gender disparity on the basis of Child Sex ratio and Sex ratio, population density, excess to schools in terms of gross enrolment ratios and number of schools, quality of education in terms of the pupil to teacher ratio, Education development Index and schools with computers, etc. When it is done, the interpretation of this analysis yields few certain and other abstract relationships between literacyrate and the variables. And thus, we obtained that the literacy rate is directly related to expenditure share of education in states budget, child sex ratio, Education Development Index, and per capita G.D.P. On the contrary this, the literacy rate is directly related to the pupil-teacher ratio of the state. Also, we came across a few anomalies while comparing states on the basis of factors; we observed some interesting trends, we observed a positive trend between literacy level and unemployment rate, and a negative trend between the number of schools and education level.