The Educational Problems of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe School & College Students in India (A Statistical Profile) Part 1: Prepared by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi

Abstract

From Praface: The Indian Council of Social Science Research brought together a group of social scientists from all over the country to design and execute a nationwide study of the~educational problems of high school and college students belonging to the scheduled castes and tribes. For this purpose, the ICSSR constituted a Co-ordinating Committee, and charged it with the task of designing and executing the study with the help of several other social scientists selected as project directors in different states. The major responsibility of the Coordinating Committee was to articulate the research problem, to design sampling plan, to construct the instrument for data-collection, to centrally computerize and analyse data, and to provide broad guidelines to the project directors in the task of conducting the study in their respective states.