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How is it that some Engineers in H. H. the Nizam's service ill-treat their subordinates by sitting in the office with them and teasing them like school boys ?
How is it that some District Engineers in the Nizam's service deal with money transactions unknown to the Accountants? Who are the responsible parties for any error in the accounts, &c., and can an Engineer deal with such transactions during the holidays and the absence of accounts !"
I paid a visit to all the schools in the station yesterday- and I am glad that I did so. I was able to see what one single individual has done in about three years, and form an idea as to what even one man could do backed up by perseverance and energy in the face of prejudice and ignorance. About three years and a half ago there was only one school in the place with a population of about 60,000; and this school had in its rolls 180 boys receiving instruction in three departments of 4 English classes, 3 Urdu classes, and 2 Maharati classes respectively. How this queer system worked it is needless to enquire. It is enough to know that Mr. T. Sreenivasa Charria, Headmaster of the High School, on being appointed at the head of this school of three distinct departments with 2, 4 and 3 teachers respectively, saw the defects, if not the evil, of the system and with the permission of the Director of Public Instruction submitted an elaborate scheme suggesting the establishment of one Ehglish school and several vernacular primary and secondary schools in the different centres of population of this scattered town as its feeders. The scheme though very sensible, came somehow to be condemned by the authorities concerned in the first instance. About a year afterwards, that is about three years ago, it was again submitted; and this time good counsels prevailed and sanction was granted. And to the working of this system is due what I saw yesterday, an English High School about 130 strong, and Primary and Secondary Vernacular Schools all over the town containing over 750 boys, where there
