MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he will state what is the total increase in the number of schools and the number of school-going children resulting from the grant for primary education of last year; and whether the same system of distribution will be followed with regard to the 25 lakhs of rupees provided for the same purpose in the present Budget.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordThe educational statistics for the year 1904–5 have not yet been received, and in their absence it is not possible to give the figures asked for in the first paragraph of the Question. The special grant to provincial funds for primary education in the Budget for 1905–6 is 35, not 25, lakhs of rupees, and it has been distributed between the several provinces as follows:—Bengal, 10 lakhs; Madras, 6; Bombay, 5; United Provinces, 6; Punjab, 3; Burma, 2; Central Provinces and Berar, 2; Assam, 1; total, 35 lakhs.