SIR MANCHERJEE BHOWNAG-GREE (Bethnal Green, N.E.)To ask the Secretary of State for India if he is aware that there is little or no adequate provision for the primary education of the children of the labourers on the tea gardens of Assam, and if he will consider the advisability of urging the Government of that province to cause proper facilities to be provided at an early date for the vernacular education of the children employed, or resident, upon such plantations in Assam.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) I will transmit my hon. friend's suggestion for the consideration of the Government of India, but he is probably aware that the labouring classes from which the coolies in Assam are drawn do not avail themselves as freely as could be wished of the facilities for education offered by Government.