DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES AND ITS IMPACT ON UNIVERSALISATION OF PRIMARY EDUCATION- ASTUDY IN THE KARBI-ANGLONG DISTRICT OF ASSAM

The provision of primary education is crucial for spreading mass illiteracy, which is the basic requirement for millennium development. It is well realized that good quality of education always has positive impact not only in country's economic development but also on sound health, lower fertility and maternal mortality, less risk of exposure to HIV/AIDs on greater life expectancy. The demographic changes influence in the progress of universalization of primary education. Education makes people conscious about the standard of living, family size and economy and so on. Education not only raises the age at marriage but it also changes the value system, leading individuals to desire small families. The pace and dynamics of population growth, mainly determined by birth rates is crucial to education planning.