Educational Development in Mau District: A Spatio-temporal Analysis

Educational development in a region leads to socio-economic development, helps in the creation of knowledge society and promotes development of human resources in that region. In other words, all round development in region or a country or society is not possible without educational development. Therefore, educational development has since long been given much emphasizes in every country and every society of the world. The significance of educational development in developing countries is even more in view of the socio-economic challenges (such as economic backwardness, unemployment, poverty, hunger and malnutrition, poor health and hygiene etc.) before them. Keeping all these in view, India has adopted planned educational development since independence. Much has been achieved in the field of education due to this effort, but still educational development is not free from problems like regional disparity, accessibility and lack of inclusiveness. Some states are at high rung of educational ladder while others are at lower rung. That is, spatial variations both at inter-states and intra-state level do exist in the area of educational development. The same is true at district level. Therefore, present study is an attempt to make a spatio-temporal analysis of the level of educational development in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh. The objective of the study is to know spatio-temporal variations in educational development in the study area. The study is based on secondary sources of data obtained from census of India and District Statistical Magazine. Composite Z-score technique has been applied to categorize the educational development into high, medium and low categories.