Annual Report on Education in the Bombay State for the Year 1952-53

The increase in the former was mainly due to the payment of the arrears of pay as a result of the revised scales which were paid during this year and that in the latter due to this as also to the fact that the District School Boards did not receive their normal share of the Local Fund cess from the District Local Boards and their contribution from the non-authorised Municipalities in several cases [...] This is due to the increase in the expenditure on salaries and allowances on account of the refixation of the pay of some of the teachers in the East Khandesh and Surat districts. [...] the number of pupils is attributable mainly to the famine conditions prevailing in some of the districts and also to the change in the beginning of the academic year from March to June during 1952-53 as the academic year instead of closing on the 28th February was extended upto the end of May new admissions made in the following year could not be taken into consideration and therefore the increa [...] The increase in the former wag mainly due to the payment of the arrears of pay as a result of the revised scales which were paid during this year and that in the latter due to this as also to the fact that the District School Boards did not receive their normal share of the Local Fund cess from the District Local Boards and their contribution from the non-authorised Municipalities in several cases [...] The Director of the Department Of Education UNESCO and the officer of UNESCO in charge of the Department for the extension of compulsory education met the offiCers and teachers of the Corporation to discuss different aspects of Primary Education.