( 67A ) 



and that, for the next few years, four should be trained annually. 

 The writers recommend an incremental scale of pay rather than 

 grade pay for each class of officer. 



30. Having discussed the general possibilities of schemes for 

 the reclamation of ravines, and the opinion of landholders on the 

 subject, the various ways of carrying out such schemes and the 

 establishment which would be necessary, it only remains for the 

 writers to make definite recommendations (1) as to what blocks of 

 ravines appear most suitable for reclamation, whenever Govern- 

 ment is prepared to extend operations, and (2) as to what steps 

 should be taken by government in the immediate future. 



31. In an appendix the writers have given a description of the 

 blocks in each district, in which they think that operations should 

 first be started. In selecting these blocks they have taken into 

 consideration the following main points : 



(1) The proximity of areas already undergoing reclamation. 



(2) The necessity of increasing existing blocks up to areas of 



economic size. 



(3) The suitability of the blocks for famine relief works. 



(4) Accessibility of the blocks. 



(5) The sentiments of the landholders concerned. 



Further information as to these blocks, as well as of their ad- 

 joining and intervening blocks, which might subsequently be inclu- 

 ded in the general scheme of reclamation, will be found in Mr. 

 Fremantle's notes on the '265 villages which he visited, copies of 

 which have been filed in the offices of the Director of Land Records 

 and Agriculture and the Afforestation Officer, and maps of the dis- 

 tricts, with these village areas as far as possible roughly grouped 

 into blocks, have been filed in the Afforestation office. " 



32. No blocks in the Agra district have been included, as Mr. 

 Courthope has already submitted a separate report for the Bhadawar 

 Estate and, as regards famine relief works, it is understood 

 that the officers of the Irrigation department are making a report. 

 As already indicated in paragraph 13, Mr. Courthope does not 

 consider the few scattered blocks of ravines found in the Muttra 

 district suitable for reclamation. There is a small area, about 80 

 acres near Baldeo, which it is believed the Collector of the district 

 wishes to have reclaimed as a demonstration area and on which 

 Mr. Courthope has written a note which the Collector has forward- 

 ed to the Commissioner. There is a large area of grass land in 

 the Muttra district situated most suitably for the establishment of 

 really valuable fuel and fodder reserves, but with such land this 

 report has no concern. 



