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not exceeding, say. Rs. 50 each. But this item may be determined when the time 

 arrives, judging separately the needs of each individual case. 



14. The teachers for agriculture and the technical crafts need not be highly 

 paid. Practical men from each trade may be selected as foremen on a small salary. 

 This is what is done in schools in England and Ireland. 



15. The boarding Institution need not be continued as a free institution beyond 

 a period of ten years. It is expected that at the end of that period the people will 

 have learnt to appreciate the value of practical education and will be willing to share 

 the cost of it with the State, to the extent of half at least. Similarly after ten years 

 the cost of village primary schools will be shared with the people, half and half, for 

 another period of ten years. 



16. It would also be expedient to encourage higher education among the 

 Waghers by offering one or two scholarships of suitable value to deserving boys. 



17. So far my scheme for the education of the Wagher youths would appear 

 to be complete. It requires to be supplemented for a few years in the case of adult 

 men who cannot be sent to school. Ten Waghers not older than thirty years may 

 be selected for a special course of training every six months during a period of 

 three years. In this way there will be about sixty Waghers in all during the course 

 of three years who will be placed under training. For the present only one branch 

 of industry may be taught them, say, by preference, weaving cloth from cotton or 

 woollen yarn. There is demand for the rough cloth called Khadi such as is used 

 in the country, also for sail cloth ; the making of Dhurries may also be taught. 

 Six months should be quite enough in which to teach the men these varieties of 

 weaving. After they have become proficient at their trade they may be dismissed and 

 then to enable them to start in business, implements of weaving may be advanced 

 to them as Tagavi, the value of which may be recouped to Government by small 

 instalments to commence from the beginning of the second year. Should they find 

 difficulty in obtaining a ready market for their productions among local traders, for 

 two years Government might give them work by advancing materials to last for a 

 month at a time and receiving in return the finished articles to be paid for at a 

 reasonable price fixed according to the state of the market at the time. Such 

 articles Government would then sell direct or through middlemen as may be found 

 the more profitable or desirable. Government must be prepared to incur if need be 

 a small loss on this business regarding it merely as an educational measure adopted 

 for the purpose of familiarising the Waghers with handicrafts and home industry. 



18. For the purpose of instruction and supervision I should utilise the services 

 of the jailor at Dwarka. He may be granted an allowance for doing this extra 

 work and an advance of Rs. 1,000 ; but the expenditure on this experiment should 

 not exceed Rs. 5,000. 



