Indian Statutory Commission. Memorandum Submitted by the Government of Bomaby to the Indian Statutory Commission

Section 8 of the Act provides that the Chief Court shall be the highest Civil Court of appeal and revision and the highest court of criminal appeal and revision for Sind and the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction for the Civil District of Karachi and shall be the court of sessions and shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of a Sessions Judge in the sessions division of Karac [...] Ahmedabad City had 242 literate persons per thousand of the population as against 103 in the rest of the Ahmedabad district ; Surat City had 324 as against 275 in the rest of the district ; Sholapur City had 125 as against 40 in the rest of the district ; Karachi City 198 as against 30 in the rest of the district ; Hyderabad City 250 as against 43 in the rest of the district. [...] In the following paragraphs an account is given of the educational work now being done and of the growth of education in the presidency mainly during the period subsequent to the introduction of the Reforms i.e. [...] During the year 1925-26 12 out of the 27 district local boards took over the control of primary education in accordance with the terms of the Act and by the end of the year 1926-27 all the district local boards in the presidency with the exception of 4 in Gujarat and i in Sind accepted the powers and responsibilities with which the Act invests them. [...] The sanctioning of these schemes coupled with the full effect of the introduction of compulsory primary education in the F ' and G ' wards of Bombay City and the speeding up of the normal increase in the number of pupils in primary schools has resulted in raising the percentage increase in the number of pupils in primary schools as compared with the year 1920-21 from 14 per cent.