Educational Infrastructure in Rural India: A Compairitive Study of Gujarat and Rajasthan

Abstract

The paper aims to compare the education infrastructure in rural areas of Gujarat and 
Rajasthan. Both the states are rich in their cultural heritage, have semi-arid and desert 
conditions on their western edge and presence of Aravali mountain range. But providing 
educational infrastructure to remote areas in such physiographic condition is one challenge in 
itself and government policies play important role in the development of such regions. The 
results show poor condition in terms of infrastructure in the arid regions of both the states but 
some unique patterns have also emerged like coming of large number of private schools in 
school education in rural Rajasthan and greator number of male teachers as compared to female 
teachers. In comparison of infrastructure of rural schools Rajasthan is relatively better than 
rural schools of Gujarat.