Government of Bengal. Publicity Department. Third Year of Provincial Autonomy in Bengal Being a Report of the Work done by the Government of Bengal from 1st April 1939 to 31st March 1940

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 f( the whole province was taken up by Government and they held a serif of conferences with the authorities of the two Universities and the repr sentatives of the different groups in the Bengal Legislatures. [...] Primary education In the sphere of primary education Government have gone ahea with the establishment of School Boards and the imposition of the' ces19 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 Jalpaiguri 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 i [...] 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 water-hyacinth in the districts of Bakargunj and Faridpur.