Education is a long process of bringing up or training an individual who is culturally refined, emotionally stable, mentally alert, morally upright, physically strong, economically independent and socially efficient. Every aspect of the present society or the present economy directly or indirectly comes as a product of education. In the present age of globalization, education has got a lot change. Education now acts as the chief engine to all solutions of the prevailing problems of our country. Education today however has to do a lot more in socio- economic perspectives. Its inability to improve the socio-economic condition of the remote villagers is in true sense regretful. Its main key lies behind the uneducated section and the lowly educated section of our society. No doubt, the highly educated section does a lot in this regard and they have somehow been enjoying a good socio-economic condition even in rural areas. Here in this study an attempt has been made to assess the relationship between education and socioeconomic condition of the rural population of kamrup District. 600 adult population, 400 educated and 200 uneducated were taken as sample from Kamrup (R) District of Assam, India. To collect first hand data, standardized scale has been used. The present study tried to investigate the importance of education in the socio-economic condition enjoyed by the rural inhabitants of Kamrup District. Statistical techniques like percentage and Chisquare test based measure Cramer's V were used.
Achieved socio-economic, ascribed socio-economic, educated, education, kamrup (R), uneducated
