*Post Doctoral Fellow, DOS in Economics and Co-operation, University of Mysore, Mysuru-570006
**Associate Professor, DOS in Economics and Co-operation, University of Mysore, Mysuru-570006
Online published on 15 March, 2019.
Free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of fourteen years is the Constitutional commitment in India. At the time of adoption of the Constitution in 1950, the aim was to achieve the goal of Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) within the next ten years i.e. by 1960 the level of education in India has been increased rapidly from the last two decades and also the public and private institutions have a great role to play in a country like India and welfare states. The main objectives of this paper are, to analyze the growth of enrollment and drop-outs in India and also it has used exponential growth model to calculate the growth of enrollment as well as drop-outs. And Finally it has been conclude that, the growth of enrollment in private schools is better compared to Govt schools and ST caste is occupied a better position in terms of their enrollment than SC's. The enrollments have been showed marked differentials among girls and boys in India. The drop-out is still existed in the country; finally the drop-out is declining from the last decade due to the various programmes and policies adopted by the Govt.
