( 66A ) 



As regards the training of these officers the writers are of opinion 

 that, while the lower-paid subordinates corresponding to foresters 

 need only be taught the practical work by attaching them to 

 existing works and making the officers in charge of these works 

 responsible for their training, as is now actually being done, a class 

 should be started for upper subordinates to teach them such sub- 

 jects as accounts and surveying, as well as the rudiments of horti- 

 culture and arboriculture. The officers of the provincial service 

 might be trained by short periods of deputation to the Roorkee 

 surveying and engineering classes to and the Saharanpur gardeners 

 class and also by attaching them for a short time to the offices 

 of District Engineers, the remaining part of their training being 

 purely practical. 



29. At the present time, excluding the newly-formed Etawah 

 division, the establishment at the disposal of the Afforestation 

 officer consists of two Extra-Assistant Conservators of Forests and 

 a few men of the forester class who are being trained. One of the 

 provincial officers is in charge of the Hamirpur sub-division and 

 has under his control less than 7,000 acres, while the other, in 

 charge of the Orai sub-division, has only 1,500 acres in the Jalaun 

 and Cawnpore districts. It is self-evident that both of these 

 officers with the assistance of trained subordinates can control a 

 very much larger area and therefore blocks for future reclama- 

 tion should, if possible, be selected within reasonable distance of 

 the blocks already under their control, so that, when it becomes 

 necessary to start famine work or if the landholders of these 

 blocks can be induced to undertake the work or to co-operate 

 with Government, these officers will be able to supervise the work 

 in the land reclaimed by these means. But, in a subsequent 

 paragraph, the writers have given their reason for considering it 

 most important that certain forest reserves along the Dhasan river 

 should be transferred from the Jhansi division to the Afforestation 

 division and think that another provincial officer will be required 

 to control these as well as any reclamation work undertaken in 

 the Mau and Garotha tahsils by means of famine labour or by co- 

 operation with the zamindars. With a view to filling this post and 

 to the relief of the present officers who may wish from time to time 

 to proceed on leave, and to ensuring against emergencies and 

 possible extension in other districts, the writers strongly recommend 

 that at least two and preferably three such officers should be 

 immediately recruited and trained. As regards the men of the 

 upper subordinate class, eight could now ba employed in the Eta- 

 wah and Afforestation divisions, although some of the charges would 

 be small The writers think that right men should be trained at once 



