Educational Inequalities in India and Affirmative Action: A Study of Higher Education Enrolment by Social Groups

For the last two decades, the country has been registered a significant growth endorsed to the higher education system which has been able to generate skilled manpower for the rapid industrialization and knowledge-based economy but the progress which has been registered in last two decades has not reached all sections of the society. This study has been done in order to examine attainment and enrolment by social groups and the prevailing inequalities in higher education in the light of affirmative action in India by using data from NSS (64^th and 71^st) round.