424 MANUAL OF THE NILAGIEI DISTRICT. 



CIIAP. XXV. ment of India accorded their sanction totlie scheme in November 

 Their sanction was necessary, for, as in the case of the 

 Khond Schools in the Ganjam Hills, these hill schools did not 

 fall within the educational scheme then approved for the Presi- 

 dency. A monthly grant of Rupees 40 was allowed for the 

 salaries of four masters, and a sum of Rupees 400 was expended on 

 the erection of four school-houses in the following localities : — 



1. Tuneri, in the Todandd, about 8 miles north-east of Ootacamand. 



2. Adikahatti, in the Mekandd, south-west of Ootacamand, some 3 

 or 4 miles from Kdteri. 



3. Kaligiri, in the P^ranganad, about 4 miles from Coonoor on the 

 road to Kdtagiri. 



4. Dimhatti, near Kdtagiri. 

 The teaching in these schools was fi-ee of charge to all. At 



first they were well attended, "probably because they were Govern- 

 ment institutions and the Tahsildar interested.'' (Colonel Pears.) 



In the course of a few months, however, three schools were made 

 over to the German Missionaries at their request. Rupees 40 being 

 disbursed to them as a grant-in-aid, on condition that they 

 should expend an equal sum every month from their own 

 resources upon the education of the hill tribes, one of their 

 number being especially set apart to superintend them, the 

 Missionaries for the time being the Revs, F. Metz, 0. Moericke, 

 and F. Kittel. Their grounds for requesting the transfer were — 

 (1), the district was too thinly populated to admit of two educa- 

 tional schemes; (2), for eleven years they had been maintaining 

 schools in various parts of the district ; (3), the Badagas had 

 confidence in the Missionaries, and would raise no objection to 

 their being entrusted with the sole management. 



In April 1859 Colonel Pears reported that these Missionaries 

 had more than fulfilled the conditions under which the schools 

 were made over to them. The schools were then ten in number, 

 six new ones having been added after the transfer. 



The schools and attendance at this time were as follows : — 



Total ... 98 -t- 25 = 123, 



