Education is very important for the development of students and society all over the world. Educational services are not equally distributed between rural and urban areas. Provision of educational services refers to the infrastructure, learning resources and technology, quality of teaching and teaching methods, co-curricular activities and overall development etc. A case study of two high schools, one which is located in rural area of Tiswadi taluka, namely Shri Saraswati High school in ST. Estevam village and the other in urban area of Ponda taluka, e.g. A. J. De Almeida high school, Ponda. The main objective of this study is to analyze and compare students’ perception towards the provision of educational services in rural and urban areas. To identify students’ accessibility and location, school infrastructure, Learning resources, Quality of teaching, different teaching methods, co-curricular and overall development. Both primary as well as secondary data were used, Students data has been directly collected from questionnaire and some information from the school documents. Data has been analyzed by representing in the form of bar graphs, pie-charts, etc., and also the application of software were used such as QGIS for mapping. The findings of the study shows majority of the rural and urban students find documentaries and 3D models as effective teaching aids whereas Urban school have good infrastructure facilities compared to the rural school making learning more effective than rural school. Policymakers should adopt some modern teaching methods and techniques from urban school to maintain the balance and fill in the gap among the school in rural areas.
Sawant et al. (Fri,) studied this question.