Impact of Sabooj Sathi Scheme on School-Going Adolescents of Different Socio-Economic Status: A Study in Purba Bardhaman District

Abstract

Socio-economic status plays a significant role on students’ academic success, involvement in extracurricular activities and attachment with education. The National Education Policies of India make several recommendations and polies for improvement of education system and students access to education. The NEP 2020 recommends to provide scholarships and incentives, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, giving bicycles to students for smooth transportation etc. ‘Sabooj Sathi’ is a bicycle distribution scheme to the secondary level school going students of West Bengal. To have the actual information about importance of Sabooj Sathi Scheme on school-going learners of Purba Bardhaman the present study was carried out through the descriptive survey method. In this descriptive survey data was collected by administering Socio-Economic Status Scale by Sunil Kumar Upadhyay and a questionnaire on Sabooj Sathi Scheme prepared by researcher on randomly selected 200 school-going adolescents from different secondary and higher secondary level schools of Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal. The study was undertaken through descriptive analysis. Result showed that Sabooj Sathi Scheme put differential impact on the adolescents coming from different socio-economic status of the society. Receiver of Sabooj Sathi scheme come from low socio-economic status was highly affected rather than the high socio-economic status students.

DOI - https://doi.org/10.65525/SVUP.9788197403699.2025.60-78