The report says that three-quarters of primary and upper secondary students travel by foot, which is significantly reduced in the secondary and higher levels. Bicycles are a means of transportation for more than a quarter of middle and high school students.
Distance from home, as seen during the survey, seems to be synchronized with the mode of travel, since 77% of households have a pre-primary school 2 km away, 83.4% for primary and 75.3% for upper primary. the levels where most students travel on foot.
It reveals that while 61.4% of male students in rural areas travel on foot, it is 49.4% for urban areas. In the case of girls, it is 66.5% for rural areas and 50.8% for urban areas. For public transport, the survey included buses, trams, trains, subway trains and ferries and not Cab, carpooling or rented buses.
While bicycle use is significantly higher among rural students (12.6%) compared to 7.6% in urban areas, the survey found that more than 12% of urban students commute to schools in the transportation provided by your parents’ employers. The figure is 4% for rural students.
The report on “Social Household Consumption: Education” surveyed 1.13 lakh of households spread over 8,000 villages and 6,000 urban blocks between July 2017 and June 2018. It involved 1.52 lakh of students at different levels of study.
According to the distribution of students by distance to the educational institution, it is found that as the level of schooling increases, the number of nearby schools decreases. For example, while 70.4% of households have a school up to upper primary classes within a range of one kilometer, it falls to 36.2% for the secondary level and 22.2% for the secondary level higher.
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