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12 February 2012

WATERING OF JUTE

To The Editor Of The Statesman

SIR, ~ I was interested and pleased to read your editorial note of this morning on what Dundee calls a “scandalous condition of things”, referring chiefly to the jute watering evil. A writer in Dundee says that no other civilised Government would require urging to put an end to a practice which affects the well-being of one of the most important branches of British trade. The opinion is held, however, as the result of experience, that no possible human appeal emanating from Calcutta to the Local Government will ever wake the authorities to realise the gravity of the situation, and the only remedy is held to lie in the intervention of the Secretary of State, goaded into action by the persistency of the Parliamentary representatives who are interested in Jute. This is surely a case with the merits of which the Department of Commerce and Industry should make itself thoroughly acquainted, even if it were necessary to depute a special officer to enquire into the whole subject; and it would be a good opportunity for that Department to do something to justify its existence in the eyes of this important section of India’s trade.

JUTE-WALLAH.

February, 7.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN INDIA

To The Editor Of The Statesman

SIR, ~ Colonel Atkinson, R.E., and Mr Dawson have been appointed by the Government  of India to enquire into the condition of Technical Education in India with reference to the needs of employers. Both of these gentlemen are Engineers, and it is too much to expect that their decisions with regard to the necessity of Scientific Education in Technological Chemistry for the development of Chemical Industries will be correct. It should have been found necessary to appoint a Technological Chemist to co-operate with them. Their conclusions are bound to be one-sided, and it would be unwise to accept those conclusions as a guide to future action, as far as Chemical Industries are concerned. ~ Yours faithfully, G.C. SEN.

Feb 6,

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