  Social mobility captures the extent to which socio-economic status of
children, is independent of status of their respective parents. In order to
measure social mobility, most widely used indicators of socio-economic status
are income, education and occupation. While social mobility measurement based
on income is less contested, data availability in Indian context limits us to
observing mobility patterns along the dimensions of either education or
occupation. In this study we observe social mobility patterns for different
social groups along these two main dimensions, and find that while upward and
downward mobility prospects in education for SCs/STs is somewhat improving in
the recent times, occupational mobility patterns are rather worrisome. These
results motivate the need for reconciling disparate trends along education and
occupation, in order to get a more comprehensive picture of social mobility in
the country.
