NOTES 53 among other things, on the socio-economic background of teachers and their service conditions. All states and union territories were covered so as to make it representative of the country as a whole. In selecting samples^ adequate welghtage was given to variables such as sex, management (government,, local body, private-aided, unaided) school type (boys', girls', coeducational) and region (rural, urban). The study tried to highlight factors like education and occupation of the parents of secondary school teachers, their total average annual income and liabilities, and facilities for professional growth coupled with deployment of potential. The total number of schools covered was 377. Of these 115 (30.5 per cent) were boys' schools, 97 (25.7 per cent) for girls and the rest coeducational. Eighty-six(22 per cent) are located in the cities, 172 (45.6 per cent)in the towns and 119(32.4 per cent)in the villages. It may be recalled that, according to the Second All India Educational Survey5, 60.6 per cent of the secondary schools are located in rural areas, the ratio between rural and urban teachers being 9:5. More than half of the sample population teach in private aided schools, two-fifths in government schools and 8 per cent in schools run by local bodies. The remaining two per cent are' on the staff of private unaided schools. In a class-ridden society like Indians, educational attainment and occupation of the parents decide the socio-economic position of a given strata. This factor was therefore specially gone into. Table I shows the distribution of teachers according to educational qualification and occupation of their fathers. Last Generation \ Around 17.84 per cent of the fathers of teachers in the sample are unable to read or write. Literates below matriculation level constitute 38.87 per cent. Those who completed matriculation or higher secondary education form 22 per cent of the fathers. University graduates and postgraduates are a very small minority. Occupationwise, the analysis shows that they are principally engaged in agriculture (27.26 per cent). Then comes subordinate services followed by the professions . Areawise, 28.79 per cent of the fathers in rural areas are illiterate and not surprisingly, agriculture is their main occupation. In urban areas, the teachers' fathers have a higher literacy level and are engaged mostly in subordinate services followed by agriculture. Secondary school teachers have again been grouped according to the educational qualification and occupation of their mothers. Survey results show that illiterate mothers constitute 49.81 per cent in the observed sample. In^the countryside it is 60.3 per cent while in the towns the percentage is a little over 47 per cent. It has also come out that rural mothers having no occupation are around 90 per cent while 81 per cent of the urban mothers stay at home doing only the domestic chores.