§ MR. LAIDLAWI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he will call the attention of the Government of India to the inadequate provision which has boon made in this year's Estimates for European and Eurasian schools; if he is aware that there are seventy-six such schools in Bengal alone, and that out of the increased appropriation of £16,000 for the whole of India, these schools stand to receive only about £10 each for equipment, scholarships, increase of salaries, and all other purposes; and if ho is aware of the face that nearly all the European schools in India are most inadequately equipped, that the standard of teaching is low, and that the teaching profession is so poorly paid that few new 700 recruits of high character and ability can be induced to go into it.
§ MR. MORLEYThe Government of India have recently taken steps to increase the resources at the disposal of European schools. These schools constitute a relatively small proportion of the schools of India, and the assistance which can be given to them must ho limited by a due regard for the claims of other classes of schools. Many of the larger European schools have endowments which render thorn independent of assistance from the Government.