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2 Kotegurh in the Hills. The Indigenous or Village Schools “are as yet of
3 Character of Indige. the rudest description. A large proportion of the
4 nour siluceaons ' population being Mahomedans, the precincts of
5 the village mosque are in many cases used as a School-house: For the,
6 same reason the Persian, Arabic, and Oordoo languages constitute the #
7 course of instruction in the Western Districts. In the Eastern Districts,
8 however, there is some admixture of the Hindee‘and Sanscrit languages
9 with the Nagaree character and other characters debased from the
10 Nagaree. In the Central Districts, and in a part of the Cis-Sutlej States,
11 once the home of the Sikh nation, the Goormookhee is not unfrequently
12 taught. The style of Education is of course most primitive. The Teachers
13 derive a precarious subsistence from fees, Heretofore there have been
14 no funds available for- popular Education ; but the majority of the -
15 people, though ignorant, are yet not insensible to the blessings of know-
16 ledge, and are ready to make some small sacrifices for the education of:
17 their children.
18 72. Asa leaven to operate upon this mass of ignorance, it is now
19 UeMedaiean proposed to found some thirty Schools at the head-
20 for Native Education in quarters of Districts; about 100 Schools in the.
21 me Sule interior of Districts ; four Normal Schools; one
22 Central College at Lahore, with one Peincipal and two Professors, all
23 Europeans ; the above Schools all to be supported by the State. To
24 encourage the people to establish or maintain Schools for themselves
25 in their own villages, it is proposed to appoint ten Visitors and sixty
26 Assistant Visitors. The whole would be supervised by one Director and
27 two Inspectors. The cost of the above Establishment and Institutions
28 will, if fully developed, amount to something less than 3 lakhs of Rupees
29 or £30,000 per annum. Besides the above, it is proposed io allot
30 Rupees 15,000 or £1,500 sterling per annum, as
31 Grants-in-Aid to Missionary and other Schools ; an
32 assistance, of which it is already apparent, that the Missionaries will rea-
33 dily avail themselves. In regard to local resources for the maintenance of
34 Indigenous or Village Schools, it is hoped that the landholders, as each
35 new settlement of the Revenue comes into operation, will engage to pay
36 1 per cent. upon their Land Tax for Education. For City Schools we
37 Probable funds, public may rely on obtaining a share of the Town duties
38 and private. levied for municipal ‘improvements. In many
39 large villages also the proceeds of a similar cess may be available,
40 Grants-in-Aid,