Socio-Economic condition and Occupational preference of SC students at secondary level in the district of Howrah, West Bengal, India

Abstract

Education plays a vital role for the development of a country because it helps to upgrade the economy of nation. India is a developing country where Indian education is recurrently choked with the factors like scarcity of infrastructure, inadequate facility, and incompetency of teachers and lack of financial resources. Adding to these factors the most key issue that India is facing today in educational field is the caste based inequality, disproportionate economic status and diverse cultural characteristics. Socioeconomic status is an economic and sociologically combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family’s economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education and occupation. So there is a crucial relationship between socio-economic condition and occupational preference.