ECONOMICS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLING INDUSTRY IN KOHIMA, NAGALAND (INDIA)

Sudhanshu Kumar Mishra () and K Rio
Additional contact information
K Rio: North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Others from EconWPA

Abstract: The enterprise of running private schools has of late assumed the nature of an industry in India. Ever-increasing population, a race for providing education to ones children, degenerating quality of education in govt.-run schools, unlimited supply of educated youths ready to work at the lowest salary, and the possibilities of earning huge profits for a modest investment together have contributed to the viability of this industry. In Kohima, the capital city of Nagaland (India), there are 31 private high/higher secondary schools against only 3 govt.-run schools. These private schools enroll some 25000 pupils. Enrolment in the govt.- run schools is barely 1600. These private schools employ 766 teachers and pay them an average salary, just 1/3rd of what the govt.-run schools pay. According to the ILO (1996) definition of subsistence wages the employees of these schools barely earn a subsistence wage. Nevertheless, these schools generate a revenue of Rs. 88 million of which Rs. 37 million is the net profit. Our analysis shows that private schooling industry in Kohima operates in a monopolistic competition market - bordering on oligopoly. There is price leadership in determining the fees to be charged by the schools making this industry.

Keywords: Micro-economics of schools; private schooling industry; India; Kohima; Nagaland; oligopoly; subsistence level salaries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P Q Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu and nep-ure
Date: 2005-04-14
Note: Type of Document - doc; pages: 17. Micro-economics of small privately run schools in India
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/othr/papers/0504/0504006.pdf (application/pdf)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/othr/papers/0504/0504006.ps.gz (application/postscript)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/othr/papers/0504/0504006.doc.gz (application/msword)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wpa:wuwpot:0504006

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Others from EconWPA
Series data maintained by EconWPA ().