Development of Education in Jammu and Kashmir: A Principal Component Analysis

Education forms an important instrument of achieving sustainable development. The present paper was an attempt to study the development of education in Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2015–16. The study was based on secondary data. Seven indicators of education development were selected for every district and the Principle Component Analysis technique was used to construct the Educational Development Index. The results point out that the composite Education Development Index of the state was 0.43853. District Leh with the Index value of 0.60871 had the highest rank and district Anantnag with the Index value of 0.26922 had the lowest rank among 22 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. It was observed from the study that only 36.37% districts were educationally developed and 63.63% districts were educationally underdeveloped.