Education particularly primary education needs to be stressed and special emphasis must be laid on girl’s education. It was brought out that to realize this goal no effort is being spared. Every care has to be taken to promote universalization of primary education by launching several schemes and programmes like setting of more number of primary schools, appointing more number of teachers, with due emphasis and equity of women teachers maintaining favourable teacher-pupil ratio etc., and programmes like operational blackboard, DEPEP etc., and in addition providing incentive, like free clothing, midday-meal etc., to offset the obstacle of poverty. However, their perception and attitudes with regard to "education", is different from that of the programmes that are being launched. We wish to examine this issue in the present study in the context of artisans (weavers) at a village setting in a chronically drought-prone district of West Bengal.