This document summarizes a student research project comparing the quality of education between government schools and private low-income schools in Mumbai. The students conducted surveys of 7th-10th grade students in three communities, asking about facilities, teaching quality, and reasons for attending or wanting to change schools. Their hypothesis that there would be little difference between the school types proved correct based on the survey results. Across communities, government schools generally had better teaching quality while infrastructure and facilities varied between school types by community. Most students understood the importance of education but some did not know their reasons for studying.

1. TEENAGERS
THINKING :
TOWARDS
EDUCATION
PRIYANKA SHRIVASTAV(SLP 9)
MUZAMMIL ANSARI(SLP 9)
RADHIKA KANNOJIYA(SLP 9)

2. WHY?
We wanted to know why people think
Government Schools do not provide good
quality of education and facilities to the
students as compared to Private Low income
schools in Mumbai.

3. RTE…….
(RIGHT TO EDUCATION)
•Free and compulsory education for children
between 6 to 14 age group.
•Education is a fundamental right, admission based
on caste, reservation, no donation or fees and no
interview of child or parents for admission.
•Every child has a right to full time elementary
education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a
formal schools which satisfies certain norms and
standards.

4. WHAT?
We chose Survey as a tool to collect the data in following
communities of Mumbai (Kurla, Worli and Prabhadevi).
Students from 7th to 10th std were surveyed.
We chose localities on the basis of:
•Student’s economical background.
•Our community.
•Areas where Private Low income and government
Schools exist.
•30 houses from each communities were surveyed.

5. Research and reading reports

6. HYPOTHESIS
Our hypothesis was that there would not be
much differences between Private Low
income schools and Government schools on
the basis of quality education, effective
teaching, infrastructure and facilities for
students.
Result of our survey proved that our
Hypothesis was correct.

7. Survey Questions
•Name:
•Standard :
•School government/low income private;
•How is your school in terms of Facilities,
Infrastructure, good teaching and teachers?
•How does education makes sense in your life?
•Would you prefer changing school? Why?

8. OUR WORK
•Identifying communities,
•Creating survey questions,
•Preparing survey sheets,
•Reading RTE, ASER and
Praja white paper reports
•Visiting communities for surveys,
•Data collection,
•Data entry,
• Data analyzing,
• Data publishing,

9. Table1: Good teaching and Teachers
Government Low income
private
schools
WORLI 80% 80%
KURLA 90% 80%
CENTURY 66% 53%
As per the data government schools are better
than low income private schools teachers in 3
different communities.

10. Table2: Good facilities and infrastructure
GOVERNMENT Low income
Private schools
WORLI 50% 40%
KURLA 70% 80%
CENTURY 46% 46%
According to the data in some of the
areas government schools have Good
Facilities & Infrastructure and in some
Low income private schools.

11. Table3: No Clean Toilets
Government Low income
private
schools
WORLI 30% 30%
KURLA 10% 30%
CENTURY 26% 40%
As per the data government schools have more cleaner toilets
than Low income private Schools.

12. Reasons of
the
students
Schooling WORLI KURLA CENTURY
No purpose Low income
private
Government
60%
30%
20%
10%
33%
20%
Studying for
parents
Low income
private
Government
10%
30%
30%
30%
0%
0%
Connected
to life
Low income
private
Government
20%
40%
60%
30%
80%
66%
Table 4 : Students’ reasons behind education
• As per the above data most of the students don’t know the reason behind
their education.
•Some students said that they are studying for their parents.
•Most of the students are studying to achieve their goals in future.

13. Table 5: Students’ Preference of change of schooling
AREAS SCHOOLING YES NO
WORLI Low income
private
Government
30%
40%
70%
60%
KURLA Low income
private
Government
40%
30%
60%
70%
CENTURY Low income
private
Government
26%
33%
74%
67%
The above table shows that the students of
Low income private schools and government School are
happy with their schooling and in some areas the
number of students prefer to change
Is more and in some areas is less.

14. ACHIEVEMENTS
AND
CHALLENGES
•We learnt to do research.
•We learnt effective ways of survey.
•We also learnt to prepare a report for
publishing.
•Our biggest challenge was to work in a team.
•We were also not able to manage our timing.
•It was difficult to travel to unknown places
for survey.

15. THANK YOU
OUR MENTORS :
SANGITA KAPADIA
PURVI VORA