Assessing the Association of the Urban Share with Spatial Distribution of Educational Infrastructure and Behavioral Dimensions of People to Move for Higher Education in Assam, India

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Poonam Sharma, Priyanka Tiwari

Abstract

Urbanization has always been a major driving force in human and economic development
throughout history. Urbanization is also linked to human capital formation and economic
growth because most of the educational infrastructure is situated and built in urban areas which
act as a driving force for people to migrate from lesser developed regions to more developed
regions. Educational infrastructure index has been calculated taking 18 variables into
consideration for 27 districts. It is skewed in nature. As in many other states of India, Assam
also has more institutions imparting general education. The districts of Kamrup Metropolitan,
Dibrugarh, Nagaon and Sonitpur have better infrastructure. The highest education
infrastructure index value is recorded by Kamrup Metropolitan district. One of the reasons for
the disparity in infrastructure can be attributed to the disparity in the level of urbanisation,
although the state itself is at the lower end of urbanisation scale. Thus, districts which are more
urbanised have better educational infrastructure compared to districts which record less urban
share like Baksa, Chirrang, and Udalgiri. The size of town also influences people’s behavioral
dimensions of decision making to move to bigger cities for their higher education

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