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4.9.1 Education capacity index
The reported urban literacy levels during 2001 in Indore are about 82.1 Census of India 2001, but literacy often does not imply that the literate population is able to benefit in terms
of improved incomes from education. The raw data obtained from the survey is presented in the following Table 6.
Table 6: Education Status of sample: Indore
Sl. No. Education Level
Numbers Percentage
1 Illiterate
383 15
2 Primary
551 21
3 High school
500 19
4 SSC
395 15
5 HSC
264 10
6 Graduate
351 13
7 PG
160 6
Total 2604
100
Source: TARU Primary Study, 2009
The raw data matches fairly well with the official literacy statistics of 82 literacy in Indore. The spatial distribution of education status across the sample settlements is presented in the
Map Annexure E. The education index with weightage given to different levels of education provides a basis for comparing different socio economic groups across the city.
The results of the analysis are provided in the following Table 7.
Table 7: Estimates of Education Index across Socio Economic Classes in Indore
Sl. No. Education
Index Slum
Lower Middle
Mixed Upper
City total
1 1-2
18 -
- -
- 1
2 2-3
40 4
- -
- 4
3 3-4
33 35
- -
- 9
4 4-5
3 35
40 27
- 32
5 5-6
6 16
20 -
2 14
6 6-7
- 1
21 26
38 18
7 7-8
- 7
16 34
16 16
8 8-9
- -
4 13
22 5
9 9-10
- -
- -
22 1
Grand Total 100
100 100
100 100
100 Source: TARU Primary Study, 2009
Out of the total estimated households of about 0.432 million households estimated by GIS based analysis, 8 are slum dwellers living in informal houses, followed by 18 low
income families include many notified slums also. The maximum education index among
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slum and low income households is in the range of 3-5, indicating less than 10
th
class education, which hardly provides any benefit in terms of earning capacity.
Even the middle class shows a high proportion of persons with low education indices signifying that the high urban literacy rates do not benefit significantly towards earning
capacity. With the city hoping to transform in to knowledge city, would require immigration of large number of educated persons to meet growing needs.
Education has remained a major constraint until last decade, where the state has invested heavily on improving literacy, but it has not enabled the neo-literates with higher education to
meet the growing challenges of shift from primary and secondary occupations to service based livelihoods. Indore was a trade and commerce town in the past.
With the setting up of Industrial estates in the neighborhood, hi-tech manufacturing sector has been attracting highly educatedskilled human resources. The second transformation to
service sector based economy will require major improvements in education and skill levels, failing which the income vulnerability is likely to increase.
Under the urban transformation and climate change scenario, the city would require major investments in education to empower the households to shift away from resource intensive
manufacturing industry to less water demanding livelihoods.
4.9.2 Income Stability Index
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