Baroda Administration Report 1916-17

Your Highness' ideas about the advancement of Local Self-Government in the villages and towns and of consolidating the foundations of Primary Compulsory Education of advaning Female Education and of securing the physical well-being of the children attending the schools are being slowly materialised. [...] The actual strength of the Army and the total cost of maintaining it were less than in the prThe Army. [...] The fall in the percentage of the value of property recovered was due to the alleged theft of a valuable pearl necklace being undetected in the Baroda District. [...] The result of the appeals to the"Resident against the decisions of the Giras Adhikari was very satisfactory : 11 out of the 12 decisions were upheld. [...] The forest offences were on the decline apprently due to the deterrent effect of the prosecutions of the previous year.