ABSTRACT
This chapter utilizes some information from National Sample Survey Organisation to substantiate major arguments. It presents a clear distinction in the state of private unaided schools in India as they seem to open up school choices beyond public funded schools as well as a new destination of market for education. Several studies have highlighted that a range of socio-cultural factors interface with mobility strategies and mediate parental decision-making on schooling for their children. The involvement of the private sector along with several other important policy changes in the school education sector in India has brought changes in the parental choice for schools. The chapter examines the dynamics of school choice by the households in the context of an expanding private education market in India. It investigates the factors that determine the demand for private schools and also how it differs across gender, in rural and urban regions and also among poor and rich households.
