STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND CERTAIN PERSONAL FACTORS OF B.TECH. STUDENTS
Authors: Ahmad Ansari Aftab 
Published: March 2022

India is a secular and democratic country, which provides
freedom to each and every individual to choose their own life
style, type of education and vocation. Thus, our society is
divided into different socio-economic groups. As per the
government statistics nearly 15% of total population of our
country belongs to the higher socio- economic status. It may
not be considered as good sign but on the other hand about
one third of total population is still deprived of even basic
needs like food, clothing and shelter. In such conditions, it is
extremely difficult for them to send their children for
education in schools. However, the major chunk of Indian
population belongs to middle class.The people of this group
always try to imitate the life style of higher socio economic
status group. Thus, in the hope of matching their standards
with this group, they work hard and in many cases they
succeed in doing so by achieving success in their respective
areas.While on the other hand this competitive attitude leads
them in the troubles and frustration in majority of cases.
People belonging to this group don't have enough money to
bear the expenditure incurred on quality school education,
which is considered as the key of success for higher and
professional education.This is the basic factor which creates a
dilemma.Because of financial constraints,majority people of
our country despite having high aspirations and the desire to
receive and excel in professional and higher education are
unable to fulfill their wishes.Professional courses like B.Tech.,
MBBS and B.D.S. are the most popular and most attractive
among the Indian masses. The people who are in these
professions enjoy the great respect and social approval in the
society. Doctors are considered as the God on the earth. One
of the most important factors, which provide these
professions social approval, is that they yield high monitory
returns, glamorous life style and opportunity to go abroad.
Studies conducted in the related areas show that SES plays a
pivotal role in the achievement of the students in the field of
education. Mehrotra, S.A. (1986) found out that in both boys
and girls there was a positive relationship between SES of the
family of the students and academic achievement. Jain, S.P.
and Shah, l. M. (1974) revealed that family background also
aspires for the professional education; Mangat, D. (1988)
studied the relationship between socio-economic status and
academic achievement and SES and found that SES exhibited
a significant relationship with academic achievement.
Jayaram, N. (1976) found out that the admission to higher
professional education is based on socio-economic
background and ability to afford the financial constrains of
social courses. Further it has also been found that those
students selected in higher education were overwhelmingly a
meritorious lot, and continued it in merit and latter academic
performance as well. Thus, it is clear that the students
belonging to higher socio-economic status tend to qualify
more for B.Tech.,MBBS,and B.D.S.other professional courses.