A comparative analysis of growth and trend pattern of enrollment in public and private elementary schools of India

The public and private institutions have a great role to play in mixed economies and welfare states. In India, while they worked in different and exclusive spheres, largely in the immediate post-independence era gradually they are converging to collaborate and compete with each other. Although the growth of private schooling in India is quite visible, this paper intends to compare the Growth and Trend of Enrollments in public as well as private Elementary Schools in India and to find out the reason for the Development of Private Schooling in India. This paper is based on purely secondary data and it has used exponential growth model to measure the growth and trend pattern of Enrollment in Public and Private Schools of India. This paper has concluded that, Public and Private Schools are playing a vital role in providing good education in India. But compared to Govt schools, the private institutions have lion share in the growth of Enrollments in India. Hence, the impact of Private Schooling in India is very positive which leads to increase the rapid growth of Private Schools and its Enrollment in India.