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officers are interested in the development of agriculture, 

 or know anything about it. Moreover, criticisms are not 

 wanting as to the zilladars on Court of Wards estates 

 behaving in a manner almost as oppressive as on private 

 estates. I believe that a new department should be created 

 under the control of the Director of Agriculture which would 

 undertake the management of such estates on the most liberal 

 and enlightened lines. 



Training of Estate Agents 



For the success of the policy I have outlined, it is an 

 essential condition that a body of trained estate agents and 

 subordinate officers should become available. They should be 

 men of undoubted integrity, taught to regard their profession 

 as one of the most honorable which they could take up. Their 

 pay must, therefore, be adequate to all their needs ; and 

 obviously they must be efficiently trained if their work is 

 to be economically worth a high pay. 



I would suggest that Government should establish a 

 Diploma of Estate Management for which a two years' 

 course of study would be required at the Agricultural College 

 at Cawnpore, and in Agricultural Institutes at Lucknow, 

 Allahabad and Agra, which might be either Government or 

 aided institutions having the status of Intermediate colleges. 

 The diploma would be a necessary qualification for a man to 

 be put in charge of any estate extending to more than 500 

 acres in area. The agents' subordinates, and the managers 

 of small estates, should be required to possess a certificate 

 which could be obtained after one year's course of training. I 

 think that having passed the matriculation or school-leaving 

 certificate should be a condition precedent to the admission to 

 the diploma course ; but a lower qualification would be 

 admissible for the certificate course. A man who had obtained 

 the diploma should not be permitted to become the agent in 

 charge of an estate until he had passed through a period of 



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