§ Colonel YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering that the pay of civilian English-teaching schoolmasters for the regimental schools of the Indian Army is only twenty-five rupees per month, or a little over 1s. a day, and that officers commanding Indian 250W regiments find it impossible to obtain properly qualified schoolmasters to teach their men at that low rate of pay, the Secretary of State will move the Government of India to provide a sum from the education Grant in next year's Budget sufficient to raise the pay of these regimental schoolmasters by at least 50 per cent., and also to provide for duly qualified inspectors so as to place the regimental schools of the Indian Army on a system somewhat more similar to that sanctioned for the British Army in India?
§ Mr. C. H. ROBERTSAn additional annual Grant, beginning with 1914–15, has been made for improvements in regimental schools in India, and 61 per cent. of this Grant has been allotted to Indian Army regimental schools. The Government of India have recently reported that the existing standard of education in the Indian Army is considered to be satisfactory. In present circumstances the Secretary of State is not prepared to sanction further expenditure on these schools.