Jliti10snpitv in ~buration - Institute for Social and Economic Change

The inter-sectoral allocation withIn educatIon
durIng
the plan period shows that e~cept
for the
First
Five
Year Plan (1951-56) where 3/5 of the
total
p llln
educational resources were allotted to prlmllry
education, the subsequent five year plans (upto tha
IV)
showed that the Intra-sectoral distribution of resource~
in education gave higher priority to university and
technical education while the e~penditure on primary
education was drastically cut. However, from the Fi fth
Five Year Plan onwards, the proportion of resources
for
primary education showed an increasing trend and that of
universIty
and technical education showed a gradual
decline.
Education being one of the important
factors,
in entering into modern occupational structure and
social
mobIlity, assumes importance in relation to
social groups. This preferential pattern of resource
a lloc at Ion in favour of university and technical
education at the cost of primary educatIon ImplIes
that
the entry of masses into formal education is restricted.
StudIes
carried
out
to e~amine the
nature
of
participation at
the
higher
educational
level
has
brought out that, the participation at thIS level IS
to
a great e~tent dominated by the upper strata of the
society (Aich 1976; Chitra, 1969; Jayaram, 1979).
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