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2 ‘which has been levied from time immemorial from non-agricultural
3 “residents A large pottion of the existing fees paid to School-masters
4 _will also be maintained. On the whole it is not improbable that the peo-
5 “ple themselves may be induced to devote, even at the present time, 2 or
6 24 lakhs or £25,000 sterling annually for Education. This, added to
7 the State contribution, will give an aggregate of not less than 6 or 7
8 Jakhs of Rupees or £70,000 per annum, with which this great measure
9 ‘may be, convmenced and set on foot. Wher once a real impression shall
10 have been made upon the popular mind, the amount-may rise to 10
11 lakhs of Rupees or £100,000 and more annually. But even the latter
12 sum, though large, would be hardly sufficient. For if the persons of
13 school-going age were assumed to be one-eighth of the population,
14 4. @& 12 millions out of 123, and if again half of these, or one-sixteenth,
15 are to be educated, say 800,000 scholars, and if the cost of educating
16 each were taken at Rupees 3 per annum (the very lowest possible
17 ‘amount), the aggregate ‘expenditure would be 24 lakhs of Rupees or
18 £240,000 per annum. More than one generation must pass away
19 before any such sum can be realized; and such is the difficulty’ of
20 carrying out any really National Education.
21 73. Provisional sanction has Ween received from the Government of ,
22 Commencement of Lndia to commence the organization of the Educa-
23 operation, tional Department on something approaching
24 to the above status) Two months only have intervened between the
25 framing of the Scheme and the close of the period under report, 4. ¢
26 between February and May 1856. But something has been done even
27 ‘in this brief interval. A large portion of the Educational Staff has been
28 “organized, nearly all the Visitors have been appointed and sent forth as_
29 emissaries and pioneers, even to. the wildest and most remote Districts.
30 More than half of the Government Schools to be founded in the interior
31 of Districts, that is, about sixty in number, have been set-on foot. At the
32 Head-Quarters or Central Station of almost every District a School has
33 either been founded or taken under management; one N ormal eschool
34 has been commenced; some 11,000 small text and school- books have ~
35 been distributed, In fine the Supreme Government may he confident,
36 that whatever degree of energy may have been displayed in other
37 Departments will be equally exerted in the cause of Education ; and we
38 may hope that before another year shall have passed, there may be a
39 goodly array of results to show.