'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1914-1915' [‎237r] (143/150)

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CHAPTER VII.—INSTRUCTION.
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i.— Education.
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GENERAL SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
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GENERAL ADMINISTRATION REPORT FOR 1011-1012 PART 11
PAGES 207-208.
F ° r T r-i<lenc y for , 9 , 4 . 1S and the Report
of British India. Re %ure s alefor BrSsh^^i^oT “ “ Pr ' Par ‘ V " ° f lhe S ‘ a,i ‘ ticS
II to^'UfiT 1 TlU ber B° f P f bl ‘- edu . cali . ona . , institutions in British districts* rose from Number of
decreased Pi T? nunlber ofpn v a te institutions fd! from 2,20, to 1,928, giving a net institutions and
c ease of 252. However the total number of pupils rose bv 1,470, the numbers beW P u P iIs -
/hrn 23 ! 0 ^ t 78 ?; 70 ^ I913 '/ 4 and respectively. The perc^tage of mal^ s C hoTrf
oughout the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. to the male population of school-going age rose from 40-6 to 42-?
and the correspondmg figures for females from 8 9 to 9-8. The°avlrage daily attendance a?
oca board pnmary schools is 7 i per cent, of the number on the Tils. The m mber 0
scholars learning English was 73,75o.f inenumoeroi
M rhere were in all 98,098 Brahmin and 496,071 non-Brahmin Hindu pupils Distnbution of
x ahomedans numbered 150,633, Indian Christians 20,925 and Parsis 16,131. ' pupils by race.
area CTrU 1 ‘i 0 ^ 1 ,. 01 f 5 ’ 654 t0 "' ,1S and y ‘. lla g es 9,523 possessed schools and the average Distribution „f
aiea served by each school was i2 , 9 square miles. 6 schools.
Rs T 4 CO L h L ^ ex P en4iture on public instruction rose from Rs. 1,38,91,139 to Expenditure.
Ks. T53,86,993 of which Rs. 82,07,628 were expended from provincial funds as against
Rs. 70,52,428 for the previous year, while local funds provided Rs. 9,33,848 as against
s. ,90,064, municipal funds Rs. 11,15,542 as against Rs. 10,34,659 and fees Rs. 27,24,726
against Rs. 26,78,962 Of the total expenditure Rs. 61,31,499 or nearly 40 per cent,
ucre spent on primary schools. _ This does not include cost of inspection or construction and
repairs ot pnmary school buildings. The expenditure on buildings of all kinds was
rys. 14,00,003.
4 8^ 5 to whife il! Cand j dates for th e MatricuHtion Examination increased from University.
4O2 3 to 5,258 while the number passing fell from 2,792 to 1,^94. The proportion of
cxessliil candidates thus fd! from 58 per cent, to 30 per cent, as the result of P a raising
e s andaid required for a pass. 1 he Intermediate Examination in Arts was held under
In tlfJ'" refutations for the first time; of 1,185 who appeared 787 passed, or 66 per cent.
th . Examination 448 passed out of 798, a percentage of 56. The number
appearing for the RS C . Examination fell from 33 to 32 of whom 25 passed. The number
cppearing or the M.A. increased from 78 to m of whom 62 passed. The expenditure
on the University (as apart from individual colleges) was Rs. 55,000.
The 1 total number of students in the seven Arts colleges was 3,475. Owing to Arts coil^
e different character of the Matriculation results the numbers of fresh men admitted were S
pCf nearlyso large as in the preceding year. The expenditure rose from Rs. 5.52,726 to
0 The number of students at the College of Commerce increased from. 92 to 143; Professional
\ 7 4 99 f eaied u° r tde interme di a te examination in commerce and 53 passed. The number of educati °n-
students at the Government Law School decreased from 509 to 461. The number sent up
° r van0L E S examinations increased from 786 to 871 but the number passing declined from
p 54 t0 33 _• At the College of Engineering the number of students including probationers
increased from 179 to 197. Out of the 190 candidates sent up for various examinations 130
passe . I he number oi students at the Grant Medical College rose from 623 to 648.
ere were also three medical schools managed by Government and one private aided
a C °°J ^ntaining 428 students and maintained at a cost of Rs. 90,572. In all 745 candidates
appeared at various medical examinations and 392 passed.
The S lA B ° mbay SC T 01 ° f Art deC ' ined fr ° m 372 to 37 °. Technical education
examm ation results showed a high percentage of successes except in the draughtsman
* I he figures for Native States are not forthcoming,
t I he figures for British districts alone for last year are not forthcoming.