Government of Bengal Publicity Department Third Year of Provincial Autonomy in Bengal

The people of this province are yet ignorant of the principles and practices in regard to the health and general welfare of the cattle which form a valuable asset to the agriculturists of the province. [...] Secondary Education Bill The question of establishing a Board of Secondary Education for the whole province was taken up by Government and they held a series of conferences with the authorities of the two Universities and the reprsentatives of the different groups in the Bengal Legislatures. [...] Primary education In the sphere of primary education Government have gone ahead with the establishment of School Boards and the imposition of the cess.19 The cess continued to be realised in the districts of Mymensingh Dacca and Tippera and was imposed in the districts of Chittagong Noakhali Faridpur and J alpaiguri during the year 1939-40. [...] An appeal by the Hon'ble the Chief Minister and the Hon'ble Minister in charge of Agriculture Industries and Rural Reconstruction and letters from the Director of Rural Reconstruction to the authorities of the University and colleges of Calcutta which followed induced a fairly satisfactory enlistment of students for the training ; and a short course of lectures touching all the useful subjects [...] On the 24th September 1939 a conference presided over by the Hon'ble the Chief Minister and attended by the Director of Rural Reconstruction the District Magistrates of Bakarganj and Faridpur Subdivisional Officers Circle Officers and others was held in the village of Banaripara in the district of Bakargunj to discuss problems about watehyacinth in the districts of Bakargunj and Faridpur.