Government of Bengal. Education Department. School Education in Bengal

The District Board of Tippera and the District School Board of Pabna have also applied to Government for the full introduction of the Act in those districts and the District School Board of Dinajpur has asked for the intrduction of the Act in selected areas of the ditrict. [...] A lengthy period of transition is inevitable; in any case as a preliminary to the reorganisation and rdistribution of schools prior to the establisment of new schools or the replacement of the old ones a careful survey will be needed to ascertain the nature of the existing schools and the location of the scliaols of the new type. [...] In accepting the recommendations of the Primary Currculum Committee relating to the inclusion of religious education in the primary curriculum Government have been guided by the provsions of the Primary Education Act of 1930 which has the sanction of the Legislature. [...] 9. The first essential for the implementing of the Primary Education Act is for the Ditrict and Union Boards to make it clear to Government that they are in favour of the imposition of the cess and the introduction of the Act. [...] The question of the inclusion of History in the primary course evoked long discussions in the Committee and it was ultimately decided at the instance of the President that the subject would be treated mainly in the form of historical tales and pages not exceeding onthird of the total number of pages of the Vernacular Reader in the top two classes should be devoted to such tales.