§ Mr. BARNES (for Mr. Ramsay Macdonald)asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, how many Indian inspectors of schools are employed by the Madras Government, and how many European inspectors; and whether there is any intention on the part of the' Madras Government to carry out the recommendations of the Public Service Commission that Native agency should be increasingly employed in the matter of inspecting schools and that the recruitment of inspectors in England should not be so commonly resorted to as heretofore?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe agency maintained in Madras for the purpose of inspecting schools educating nearly a million boys consists of nine inspectors, twenty-one assistant inspectors, and 102 sub-assistant inspectors. Of these six inspectors and two assistant inspectors are 36 Europeans; the rest are Indians. For a statement of the policy of Government in respect of the recruitment of inspectors of schools I would refer my hon. Friend to paragraph 43 of the well known Resolution on Indian educational policy issued in 1904.