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Director (Inland), to make up for the lack of adequate elerieal staff, 

 has frequently to utilize the services of his Assistant Inspectors. 

 The work of the department has increased very greatly during the 

 past two years but the additional staff asked for long ago has not yet 

 been sanctioned. The work of the Assistant Director (Coast) simi- 

 larly suffers, and like my own is always more or less in arrears in 

 consequence. 



General. 



3. Expansion of iv ork. — This has continued in certain directions, 

 such as the more vigorous preparation of scientific and technical 

 reports for publication, increase in the number of schools and fish- 

 curing yards under the charge of the department, and in a large 

 extension of the operations of the piseicultural section. One hun- 

 dred and thirty-five tanks were taken over under the authority of 

 G.O. No. 217, Revenue (Special), dated 3rd February 1920, from 

 the District Boards of Chingleput and Nellore. To meet the needs 

 of this section for subordinates trained on tho technical side, I 

 arranged for the utilization of the Ennore bungalow as a modest but 

 efficient training institute for this purpose ; the results have been 

 gratifying and it may be possible to develop this temporary arrange- 

 ment into a permanent and economical training scheme that will 

 obviate the need for a costly Fishery College as proposed in more 

 prosperous times. 



4. finance. — Expenditure on non-industrial sections of the work, 

 especially education, socio-economics, supervision and research, 

 continues to increase ; as a consequence the excellent financial result 

 in the piseicultural section and the fairly good one from the nhank 

 fishery are masked. The total revenue from all sources amounted 

 to Rs. 2,29,420, the expenditure to Ks. 2,93,027, a loss of Rupees 

 63,607 as compared with Rs. 19,087 in 1919-20. The increase in 

 the deficit by Rs. 44,520 is due in the main to increases in super- 

 vision and research (Rs. 5,400 to the Marine Biologist alone), in 

 temporary additions to the pay of the establishment (Rs. 14,000), iu 

 travelling allowances due chiefly to the increased rates given (Rupees 

 5,000), and Rs. 3,000 upon education and socio-economic work. 

 With Rs. 15,948 spent upon tin-plate, still in stock, these items 

 account for the whole of the increase in the deficit. The possibility 

 of making the department self-supporting depends on the arrest of 

 the declining revenue obtained from the chank fisheries, and upon 

 the early completion of the tank acquisition schemes, the two great 

 sources of income. Reorganization of the cannery, which may in- 

 volve its removal to a more suitable site, and more enterprise in the 

 conduct of the Tanur Experimental Curing Station are also urgent 

 and should contribute a substantial quota to profits when effected. 



