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since elapsed, no action has as yet been taken on the commit- 

 tee's suggestions, because the Government of India has taken 

 up the question and has not been able to arrive at any final 

 decision regarding it. The matter, however, seems to be 

 entirely one for the local Government to deal with, and it is 

 undesirable that further delay should be permitted in taking 

 action in the matter. It would not, of course, do to look for 

 any immediate visible results from the establishment of these 

 schools, but they would undoubtedly be the means of diffusing 

 knowledge which will render cultivation, according to exist- 

 ing methods, more careful, thereby increasing the produce 

 by almost insensible increments and prepare the way for the 

 introduction of new methods when the time is ripe for it. 



104. Some attention has been paid by Government of 

 ^ ^ . , ^ late years to the promotion of technical 



Technical education. i , • • i t ■ i • i t. 



education m arts and industries though in 

 this, as in the case of agricultural education, the results at- 

 tained have as yet been small. Leaving out of account col- 

 leges and schools for law, medicine and engineering, the 

 principal institutions aided by Government giving instruc- 

 tion in arts and industries are the School of Arts at Madras 

 with an attendance of 426 pupils, Chengalvaraya JNaicker's 

 Commercial School at Madras with 123 pupils, and 18 other 

 industrial schools with an attendance of 997 pupils not 

 including special classes attached to a few schools aided by 

 Government. There are 91 teachers in these institutions, 

 of whom 11 are men educated in Europe, America or 

 Australia. In 1891, 80 pupils passed the technical examina- 

 tions in industries. The articles manufactured in these 

 institutions during 1891 have been valued at Es. 40,826 

 and the profits realized at Rs. 10,184. The Victoria 

 Technical Institute has been organized for the promotion 

 of technical education, and its secretary, Mr. John Adam, 

 has, after inspecting a considerable number of technical 

 institutions in England, recently written a memorandum 

 containing suggestions for the development of education in 

 arts and industries. His main proposals are (1) that system- 

 atic attempts should be made by Government to collect 

 information about industries ; (2) that an Upper Secondary 

 technical school should be established at Madras ; (3) that 

 evening and morning classes for the instruction of artizans 

 should be instituted ; (4) that peripatetic lecturers should 

 be employed to lecture and exhibit products, processes and 

 tools of manufactures; and (5) that Inspectors should be 

 appointed to inspect and advise mofussil institutions. Mr. 

 Havell, the Superintendent of the School of Arts, in an article 



