Why educational inequality remains high in India | Aneesh M R

March 25, 2025

The availability of educational infrastructure is highly uneven between the rich and the poor, urban and rural areas and between different castes.
The unequal distribution of education leads to unequal outcomes for different social groups.

Investment in human capital plays a decisive role in economic growth. India, which seeks to become the engine of global economic growth and swears by inclusive growth, however, shows shocking trends in rural-urban educational inequality.

This is evident from both the Social Consumption of Education Survey 2017-18 and the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of 2023