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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
Chap. VII.
INSTBUCTION.
High Schools.
Middle Schools.
Schools for
Europeans and
Eurasians.
Expenditure on
Secondary Schools.
Primary education.
Expenditure on
Primary Schools.
Vernacular
Pinal Examination.
Normal Schools.
Technical education.
Mahomedans.
Special classes.
Aboriginal tribes
and depressed
classes.
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[ 19o 8-1909.
9. The number of High Schools decreased by 1 to 137 but the attendance increased from
35,634 to 38,780. These figures include 25 schools for girls with 2,<-,89 pupils against 28
2,563 pupils m the previous year.
10. The number of Middle Schools was 390, a decrease of 2, but the attendance increased
from 24,905 to 27,072.
11. European Schools decreased from 46 to 44. The numbei of boys decreased by 39 tn
1 620 and the number of girls increased by 38 to 1,939. Non-Europeans numbered 338 or
9^per cent. English-teacbing schools decreased by one to 38, while the attendance of 7 108
showed a rise of 350 but included only 12*6 per cent, of Europeans.
12. The total expenditure on Secondary Schools rose from Rs. 23,87,944 to
Rs. 25,10,276.
13. The number of Primary Schools for boys increased by ^38 to 9,900 and the numberof
pupils by 28 024 to 570,145, partly on account of the diminished plague. There were 5,004
Local Board Primary Schools with 280,778 pupils, an increase of 34 schools and 13,728 p apils
which was confined to 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. proper, Sind showing a decline. Municipal Schools for
hoys numbered 661 and the attendance 80,370, the decrease being 4 and 884 respectively. The
number of Primary Schools for boys in Native States increased from 2,132 to 2,237 and the
attendance from 114,233 to 124,558. Aided Schools numbered 1,829 with 75,570 p upils
against 1,761 and 72,255 respectively last year. There were 14u Night Schools with an
attendance of 3,471. Of the Private Schools recorded in paragrapn 1, all except 151 are
elementary. The number of Primary Schools for girls increased from 1,026 to 1,050 and the
number of pupils from 6o,419 to / 0,696. Phe total number of gnls under instruction ip
Primary Schools increased by 9,170 to 101,328.
14. The expenditure on Primary Schools advanced from Rs. 44,67,610 to Rs. 47,55,685.
15. The Vernacular Final Examination was attended by 5,544 candidates against 5,848
last year, and passed by 2,920 against 2,953.
16. In the 8 Training Schools for masters there were 1,220 students against 1,199 in the
previous year, and in the 12 Training Schools for mistresses there were 348 students against
368. The total expenditure on such schools rose from Rs. 2,47,790 to Rs. 2,78,358.
17. At the Bombay School of Art the number of students rose from 365 to 383. Out of
142 candidates 63 were successful in the Drawing Teachers' Certificate Examination. In the
First Grade Drawing Examination 2,489 passed out of 5,218, in the Second Grade 1,074 out of
1,893 and in the Third Grade 442 out of 699. At the 3 Government Medical Schools the average
daily attendance rose from 273 to 291. The number of successes in the Medical Examination,
3rd year, was 66 against 78. Students at the Veterinary College, Bombay, decreased by one
to 106. The Diploma Examination was passed by 17 out of 23 candidates. The new building
cf the College was opened, its total cost having been Rs. 2,76,000. The number of students on
the roll of the Agricultural College was 104 against 108 in the previous year. The examina
tion results are recorded in paragraph 7. Industrial and Technical Schools numbered 28 against
32, and the students 1,997 against 1,943. The weaving department of the Nagar Industrial
School continued to receive the special annual Government grant of Rs. 12,000. The number
on the roll of the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Bombay, decreased from 387 to 335.
The additional annual Government grant and the non-recurring grant for development together
amounted to Rs. 24,925. Out of the grant for technical education the total contributions of
Government spent on institutions strictly industrial or technical amounted to Rs. 1,11,838.
18. The total number of Mahomedan pupils under public instruction rose from 109,932 to
114,762. Of these 106 are in Arts Colleges, 46 in Professional Colleges, 4,587 in Secondary
Schools, 109,338 in Primary Schools, and 685 in Special Schools, including 180 in Training
Schools. In private institutions, including Kor4n Schools, the number increased from 36,582
to 37,857.
19. In the Rajkumar College, Rdjkot, the number of Kumars decreased by one to 40.
In English the diploma Kumdrs are said to be far in advance of the average matriculated '
student. In the Gondal Girdsia College, the attendance rose from 39 to 68, and in the
Talukdari Girdsia School at Wadhwan from 52 to 56. In addition, there are 308 children of
these classes in ordinary Secondary Schools and 2,023 in Primary Schools. In Ahmedabad,
Kaira and Broach districts respectively there are 69, 868 and 24 talukdari children at school.
The re-organized school at Godhra contained 30 boys, who showed great improvement.
20. The total number of pupils from aboriginal and hill tribes increased by nearly 1,500
to 15,915, of whom 11,265 were being educated in the Northern Division and 2,290 in the
Central Division. Of depressed classes the total number under instruction was 1S,3 Z 19, an
increase of over 1,300. The Central Division claimed 10,042 out of this total. In Sind the
Hur Schools decreased from 10 to 7 and the pupils from 411 to 127 owing to the release of the
Hurs from the Penal Settlements. Pupils of the depressed classes were returned at 248, but
the figures are uncertain. Both with aboriginal tribes and depressed classes the progress m
Sind is very slow.
21. In 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. including Sind and Kathiawar 51 teachers, 1,116 pupils and
6 servants died of plague, the total mortality being thus 1.175 against 3,926 in the preceding'
year.
Effects of plague
on education,