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villages. The government should, under Act 1 of 1889, appoint as munsifs on decent salaries, only those persons who have passed the necessary examinations. It might then entrust the work of revenue collection to assistant munsifs. The villages are badly in need of roads, schools, post offices, libraries, police stations, pounds, etc., It is a great defect in the English Government that villages should thus be neglected. As proper 'arrangements' have not been made for the efficient administration of villages, the villages are grievously suffering from wicked people. The paper requests the government to kindly enquire into these complaints and better the conditions of the villages.
Page 297, July 20th 1901, Teaching Grammar
A correspondent to the A.G. of the 20th July (received 24th September) complains that the system of teaching English Grammar is most defective. The authorities very often change the text books on grammar, only a few of them are easily intelligible. The boys are consequently very deficient in their knowledge of Grammar. Out of the many defects noticeable in such grammar, he points out one or two in Nesfield's Grammar. There is no rule pointing out the cases where capital letters should be used. Nor are there rules treating of diphthongs and syllables in the "First Two Books".
The same paper observes that, though it is a matter for congratulation that many thousands of pupils are learning English and some of them becoming proficient too, it is nevertheless very much to be regretted that large numbers of people are still illiterate that even 25 percent of the school going boys are attending the schools. Who is to blame, the paper asks, for such state of affairs? Is it the boys or the parents or the government? The government is no doubt taking much pains for the education of the people, but all their labour is being wasted. The ordinary villager is not much anxious about his education, and a taste has yet to be created for it. It is therefore necessary that the government should appoint a clever man as the village school master in every village on a salary of Rs.5 allowing him at the same time, to receive fees also from the boys. Such village schools should be inspected once a year and the incompetent school masters removed. If such a proposal be carried out, there can be no doubt that education will
