The Rural India November 1940

Though the appoinment of the minister from public to administer the departments connected with the welfare and improvement of the ryot is not by popular election but even the selection of a minister from public is a step in right direction and shows good intentions of the Durbar to increase the association of the people in the administration of the state. [...] The perusal of the report gives an impression not only of the critical survey of the work done but also a psycho-analytical review of the mentality and the working capacity of the mein!Jers of the village committees arid of the 'village workers and the way they have approached their task. [...] In place of one school teacher in between a number of villages for every vilage has not yet been provided with a teacher— formerly there was the temple—priest the Mulla in the Mosque the village Purohit or Pandit the Bania and the village Guruji in the employ of the Panchayat to administer to the educational needs of the community. [...] In the course of the speech he says:— Agriculture is the basic industry of this country and the securing from it to the cultivator of the maximum possible benefit is the primary object of Government. [...] As the central banks are supposed to function as the associations of societies and if all the directors are elected representatives of the societies there may creep in a tendency to look in much more for the good of the societies and overlook the interests of the banks.