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"Appalling" Figures In Education Rcport SMALL ENR0LMENTS
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(Eeceived 18, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 17. "Appalling" is the description applded to fignres of Indian ijllteracy in the Gpvernment pf India's Report 08 Education for 1935. The report shows that the proportion of the population of school-going age is 12 per cent,, yet the percentage ixnflpr instruction is only flve per cent., representing only enrolments. The report, instaneing wastage, f»ayp that out of 5,381,385 boys and girls Who entered class one in 1931-1932 only 1,206,958 remained to reach class four and attadn litpracy in 1934-1935
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 7
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