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XIV.
shows held during the year 1930-31.
of animal sold.
Cows.
12
Rs.
...
15
to
20
to 370
3
to 32
3
to 20
10
to 60
...
...
...
...
...
15
to
60
...
...
25
15
to
9<
2C
to 110
c
to
3J
20
...
35
to 40
...
...
Buffaloes.
13
Rs.
...
20
to
40
to 325
2
to 25
to 85
15
to 30
...
...
...
...
...
...
35
to
100
......
...
50
40
to
75
30
to 200
...
40
...
25
to 20
...
...
...
Camels.
14
Rs.
3
to
25
33
70
45
to 165
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
(f)
1,000
0 4,000
...
...
...
40
...
...
...
600
...
...
...
Amount realised in f ees,
15
Rs.
1,300
4,000
...
7,000
900
...
...
1,918
653
300
100
...
16,545
1,955
...
2,273
...
1,750
500
830
7,334
...
23,878
Total number of animals that
competed for prizes.
16
31
68
(d)
112
74
...
...
80
...
...
...
...
62
...
447
...
6
...
...
...
...
...
53
...
500
Prizes awarded.
From Imperial Funds.
17
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
From Provincial Funds.
18
Rs.
...
...
400
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
400
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
400
From Local Funds.
19
Rs.
200
...
600
190
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
117
1,007
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1,007
From other sources.
20
Rs.
...
64
300
75
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
499
377
47
...
...
...
...
...
...
424
...
923
Total.
21
Rs.
200
64
1,260
265
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
117
1,906
377
47
...
...
...
...
...
...
424
...
2,330
Number of medals awarded.
22
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Remarks.
23
* Goats.
(a) 419
Dumbas
and 60 elephants.
(b) 3 up country
buffalo bulls.
(c) Elephants 607
and goats 217.
(d) 19 were awarded.
Rs. 96 awardd to
30 animals.
(e) Elephants.
(f) Elephants.
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TABLE XIV(A).
Statement showing the expenditure of the Civil Veterinary Department during the year 19S0-31 in the
province of Bihar and Orissa.
Heads of Account.
1
Superintendence ...
Veterinary Instruction (Veteri-
nary College and Patna cattle
Farm.)
Subordinate Establishment ...
Hospitals and dispensaries ...
Prizes ...
Fairs and Shows ...
Breeding operations ...
Total ...
Amount.
Imperial.
2
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Provincial.
3
Rs. a. p.
67,432 8 0
77,633 2 3
52,842 10 6
46,170 1 3
1,98,193 12 4
...
...
...
4,42,272 2 4
Local.
4
Rs. a. p.
230 0 0
3,432 8 0
...
80,563 0 6
2,10,597 10 3
...
40,459 7 0
2,303 12 3
3,37,586 6 0
Total.
5
Rs. a. p.
67,662 8 0
81,005 10 8
52,842 10 6
1,26,733 1 9
4,08,791 6 7
40,459 7 0
2,303 12 3
7,79,858 8 4
xxvi
TABLE
Showing number of animals treated and castrated at
District.
1
Bihar and Orissa Veterinary
College Hospital.
Number of Veterinary
Hospitals.
2
1
Number of Veterinary
Assistants employed.
3
1
Number of in-patients treated during
the year.
Equines.
4
25
Bovines.
5
27
Other animals.
6
53
Total.
7
105
Number of out-
during the
Equines.
8
105
Bovines.
9
950
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V.
Veterinary Hospitals and Dispensaries during the year 1930-31.
patients treated
year.
Other animals.
10
900
Total.
11
1,855
Grand total of in-patients
and out-patiente treated
during
the year.
12
1,360
Total
numberof cases
supplied with medicines
bat not
brought to
Hospitals.
13
Nil
Castrations performed.
Equines.
14
1
Bovines.
15
13
Other animals.
16
Total.
17
13
Receipts.
18
Expendi-
ture.
19
Included in statement
'A'.
R. T. DAVIS, I.V.S.,
Principal,
Bihar and Orissa Veterinary College.
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TABLE VII.
Showing total strength of the Provincial and Subordinate staff employed
daring the year 1930-31.
Province.
(Bihar and Orissa.)
1
Bihar and Orissa
Veterinary College.
How employed.
2
In Schools
and
Colleges.
In Hospitals ...
On other works
Whether paid
from provincial
or local
fund.
3
Provincial ...
...
Provinoial ...
Total
...
Teaching staff.
4
(a) 6
...
...
6
Veterinary Inspectors.
5
...
...
...
...
Subordinate staff not
included in previous
column.
6
(b)4
...
(d) 2
6
Veterinary Assistant
Surgeons.
7
...
(c) 2
...
2
Total.
8
10
3
2
14
(a) 4 Professors and 2 Lecturers.
(b) 1 Demonstrator and 3 Assistants to Professors.
(e) Includes 1 compounder.
(d) Laboratory Assistants.
R. T. DAVIS, I.V.S.,
Principal,
Bihar and Orissa Veterinary College.
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STATEMENT A.
Showing receipts and expenditure of the Bihar and Orissa Veterinary
College daring the year 1930-31.
RECEIPTS.
Admission fee ... ... ...
Tuition fee ... ...
Examination fee ... ... ...
Diploma fee ... ... ... ...
Caution money deposit ... ... ...
Seat rent ... ... ... ...
Treatment fee ... ... ...
Fine ... ... ... ...
Contribution from other Governments ...
Total ...
Rs a. p.
260 0 0
1,875 0 0
260 0 0
150 0 0
260 0 0
1,107 0 0
261 14 0
6 8 0
*6,000 0 0
10,180 6 0
*Rs. 3,000 remained unrealized during the year.
EXPENDITURE.
Pay of officers—Non-voted ... ...
Pay of officers—Voted ... ...
Pay of Establishment ... ... ...
Allowances—Non-voted ... ... ...
Allowances—Voted ... ... ...
Contingencies, non-contract ... ...
Stipend and scholarship ... ...
Total ...
Rs. a. p.
17,005 10 0
18,326 4 0
10,995 15 0
2,125 6 8
1,064 15 0
28,168 7 0
980 0 0
78,661 9 3
R. T. DAVIS, I.V.S.,
Principal,
Bihar and Orissa Veterinary College.
E.& O. G. P. (C. V. D.)no. 20-408-14-12-1031—M. M. G. and others.
No. 2145-D.
GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR AND ORISSA.
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.
RESOLUTION .
The 3rd December 1931.
READ—
The annual report of the Civil Veterinary Department for the
year 1930-31.
MAJOR P. B. Riley, I.V.S., held charge of the department
as officiating Director until the 26th April 1930 when he
went on leave. During his absence, Mr. J. S. Garewal, I.V.S.,
whose services were kindly lent by the Punjab Government,
officiated as Director. Major Riley returned from leave on
the 24th November 19S0 and was appointed Director on
two years' probation with effect from the date of his return.
There was no change in the superior staff and organisation
of the department and the staff continues to be inadequate
as before. The question of creation of the Superior
Veterinary Service, class I, has further receded in the back-
ground on account of the prevailing financial stringency.
Government were, however, able to appoint the State
Scholar, Mr. S. K. Sen, on his return from England, as
a special officer on training and it is soon hoped to absorb
him in the superior staff.
2. The outstanding feature of this year's report is the
inauguration of the Bihar and Orissa Veterinary College at
Patna with a full complement of teachers and students.
There was considerable competition for the limited number
of admissions and the Principal, Mr. R. T. Davis, I.V.S.,
deserves to be congratulated on the fact that the college
attracted a large number of students from the United
Provinces, Hyderabad and other places during the very
first year of its working. The results of the first diploma
2
and first and second year annual examinations conducted
by a Board of Examiners, specially appointed by Govern-
ment with Mr. A. D. MacGregor, F.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., I.V.S.,
Principal of the Bengal Veterinary College, as President,
were eminently satisfactory and Government trust that the
college will soon establish a high reputation for itself and
turn out really capable and qualified men by insisting on
a high standard of examination and teaching.
3. The total number of outbreaks of contagious diseases
reported during the year was 6,318 against 6,660 in the
previous year. The number of animals affected slightly
increased from 111,080 to 113,382, but the number of deaths
recorded a welcome decrease from 35,543 to 33,719. This
decrease was all the more remarkable in view of the fact,
that, owing to financial stringency and the unsatisfactory
condition of the finances of local bodies throughout the
province, the money available for preventive inoculation
was considerably curtailed and the department was only
able to undertake inoculation in 79,641 cases against 324,032
cases in 1929-30 and 328,153 in 1928-29. Epidemics were
tackled in the ordinary way by the use of disinfectants
and treatment, and the isolation of affected animals,
inoculation being undertaken only when these cheaper
measures failed to check the disease. In spite of this
Government had to spend during the year a total of
Rs. 53,353-14-10 on sera and vaccine against an average
expenditure of below Rs. 10,000 a few years ago. Debts
outstanding from local bodies have, however, now been
almost cleared up and the position might be said to have
become normal. Government trust that the experience of
this year's working will be borne in mind in future so that
epidemics may continue to be treated in the first instance
by ordinary measure until, at any rate, the financial
condition so improves that more expenditure on sera and
vaccine becomes practicable.
4. As compensation for the smaller number of
preventive inoculations undertaken in the mufassil, touring
veterinary assistant surgeons were able to pay more attention
to ordinary cases of disease with the result that 204,861
cases were treated this year against 177,537 cases in the
previous year.
The number of patients treated at the
hospitals also increased from 63,286 to 70,067. These
results are satisfactory and indicate the growing popularity
of the department as well as the gradual awakening of
public conscience to the sufferings of dumb animals.
3
5. The Patna cattle breeding and dairy farm registered
a successful year's working under the management of
Babu N. N. Ghosh. The average yield of milk per cow
per day increased from 6.2 lbs. in the previous year to 7.3
lbs. The revenue increased from Rs. 27,064 in 1929-30 to
Rs. 51,521 in 1930-31, which was all the more remarkable,
being coupled with a decrease in expenditure from
Rs. 54,607 to Rs. 52,748.
The only other work in connection with live-stock
improvement entrusted to the department is the castration
of scrub bulls. Due attention appears to have been paid to
this work during the year under report.
6. Government are pleased to note that the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals showed a record of
another year's successful work. The horse and cattle show
at Patna organised by Major Riley under the auspices of
the Society was the first one of its kind andappears to have
been eminently successful.
7. In conclusion, Government in the Ministry of
Education are pleased to record their appreciation of the
zeal and efficiency with which the department was
administered during the year under review by Major Riley
and Mr. Garewal. They are also pleased to note the names
of officers who have been commended for good work by
Major Riley. They trust that all the officers of the depart-
ment will work with redoubled energy so as to utilise the
resources at their disposal to the utmost and that they will
not allow themselves to be discouraged by the rigid econo-
mies which have become necessary on account of the
retrenchments effected in their contingent grants.
ORDER.—Ordered that the resolution be published in
the Bihar and Orissa Gazette and that a copy of it
together with a copy of the report, be submitted to the
Government of India and to the Punjab Government (with
reference to paragraphs 1 and 7 ).
By order of the Government of Bihar and Orissa
(Ministry of Education),
B. K. GOKHALE ,
Offg. Secretary to Government.
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5. Owing to the late appointment of the Professor of Patho-
logy and Bacteriology, the teaching of Pathology and Bacteriology
had also to be temporarily allotted to Babu P. Panda, the 1st
Laboratory Assistant, whose services were transferred to the
college on the abolition of the Head Office Laboratory. He taught
these subjects quite satisfactorily in addition to his own duties
from 1st July until Mr. Malkani joined.
6. Subordinate staff.—The following officers who were
appointed to the subordinate teaching staff joined their appoint-
ments from the dates against the name of each:—
(1) Babu B. M. Labiri, G.B.V.C., Demonstrator to 28rd June 1930.
Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology.
(2) Maulavi Muhammad Naimuddin,
G.B.V.C.,
19th July 1930.
Assistant to Professor of Hygiene, Dietetics
and Animal Husbandry.
(3) Maulavi M. A. Rahim, G.B.V.C., Assistant 23rd June 1930.
to Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.
(4) Babu B. Ruth, G.B.V.C., Assistant to
23rd June 1930.
Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics.
The total strength of the provincial and subordinate estab-
lishment as it stood on 31st March 1931, is shown in table VII.
7. First Laboratory Assistant Babu P. Panda was granted
leave on average pay for 4 months from 7th November and Staff
Veterinary Assistant Surgeon, Babu D. Dey, was deputed from
the Department to act in his place. He, however, was recalled
in January 1931, and 2nd Laboratory Assistant Babu Gulzar
Prashad acted as 1st Laboratory Assistant from 2nd January
until the return of Babu P. Panda, the post of 2nd Laboratory
Assistant remaining vacant during the period. Babu B. M.
Lahiri, Demonstrator, and 2nd Laboratory Assistant, Babu Gulzar
Prashad, were also granted leave on average pay for short periods.
VETERINARY
INSTRUCTION.
8. Admission.—Government
and district board stipendiaries
were selected by the Director, Civil Veterinary Department Bihar
and Orissa, and admitted on his recommendation, while private
students of the province were admitted on the advice of a selec-
tion committee which was appointed by Government for the
purpose. Government stipendiaries from outside the province
were selected by the Directors, Civil Veterinary Departments of
their respective Provinces.
9. Students.—The college was opened with 34 students on
the first day. This number included 24 students transferred from
the Bengal Veterinary College, Belgachia. In addition to the
above, 18 more students joined subsequently, making a total of
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OF THE
CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
BIHAR AND ORISSA
FOR THE YEAR
1931-32.
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1932.
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OF THE
CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
BIHAR AND ORISSA
FOR THE YEAR
1931-32.
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1932.
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House, Aldwych, London, W. C. 2.
No. 4236-V. D.
FROM
MAJOR P. B. RILEY, I.V.S.,
DIRECTOR OF VETERINARY SERVICES,
BIHAR AND ORISSA ,
To
THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF
BIHAR AND ORISSA, EDUCATION AND
DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, PATNA.
Dated Patna, the 21st October 1932.
SUBJECT.—Annual Administration Report of the Civil Veterinary Depart-
ment, Bihar and Orissa, for 1931-32.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith in duplicate the
Annual Report of the Civil Veterinary Department, Bihar and
Orissa, for the year 1931-32.
I bare the honour to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient servant,
P. B. RILEY, MAJOR, I.V.S.,
Director of Veterinary Services,
Bihar and Orissa.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
General Administration ... ... ... ... ...
RANGES—
(a) North Bihar ... ... ... ...
(b) Central
...
...
....
...
(c) Orissa ...
... ... ... ...
CHAPTER II.
VETERINARY INSTRUCTION—
Bihar and Orissa Veterinary College—
(a) Administration ... ... ... ...
(b) Students ... ... ... ...
(c) Examinations ... ... ... ...
(d) Stipends ... ... ... ...
(e) Hostel ... ... ... ...
(f) Library, Museum, etc. ... ... ...
(g) Veterinary hospital ... ... ...
(h) Training of compounders ... ... ...
(i) Shoeing Forge ... ... ... ...
(j) Riding school, ponies and ambulance ... ...
(k) Research laboratory ... ... ...
(l) General Remarks ... ... ... ...
(m) Expenditure ... ... ... ...
Professional Examinations—
(a) Bihar and Orissa Veterinary Examination Board ...
(b) Post-graduate training ... ... ... ...
(c) Training at Muktesar ... ... ... ...
(d) Lectures on diseases ... ... ... ...
CHAPTER III.
TREATMENT OF DISEASES—
1. General condition
...
...
...
...
(a) Statistics ... ... ... ...
(5) Reporting of diseases
...
...
...
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2. Equine—
(a) Glanders and Farcy ... ... ... ...
(b) Dourine ... ... ... ...
(c) Anthrax ... ... ... ...
(d) Surra ... ... ... ...
(e) Tetanus ... ... ... ...
(f) Strangles ... ... ... ...
(g) Rabies ... ... ... ...
8. Bovine—
(a) Rinderpest ... ... ... ...
(b) Foot and mouth disease ... ... ...
(c) Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia ... ... ...
(d) Black quarter ... ... ... ...
(e) Anthrax ... ... ... ...
(f) Other contagious diseases ... ... ...
4. Others—
(a) Avian ... ... ... ...
(b) Canine ... ... ... ...
(c) Feline ... ... ... ...
(d) Cervine ... ... ... ...
(e) Others ... ... ... ...
4. Preventive inoculation —
(a) Number of inoculations performed
(b) Against rinderpest (serum alone) ... ...
(c)
„
„
(serum simultaneous) ... ...
(d)
„
hæmorrhagic septicæmia ... ...
(e)
„
anthrax ... ... ... ...
(f)
„
Black quarter .. ... ...
(g) Supply of sera and vaccines ... ... ...
5. Number of animals treated—
(a) Opening of new dispensaries ... ... ...
(b) Construction of dispensaries ... ... ...
(c) Work of touring veterinary assistant surgeons ...
(d) Field veterinary dispensary ... ... ...
6. Hospitals—
(a) Number of hospitals ... ... ...
(b) Construction and repair ... ... ...
(c) Number of patients treated
...
...
...
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CHAPTER IV.
BREEDING OPERATIONS—
1. Cattle Breeding—
(a) Control of livestock improvement ... ...
(b) Stud bulls ... ... ... ...
(c) Castration of scrub bulls ... .... ... ...
2. Cattle farms—
Patna cattle breeding and dairy farm
(a) Staff ... ... ... ... ....
(b) Livestock
...
... ... ...
(c) Milk and milk products ... .... ... ...
(d) Cultivation ... ... ... ...
(e) Irrigation ... ... ... ...
(f) Buildings ... ... ... ...
(g) Machinery and implements ... ... ...
(h) Revenue and expenditure ... ... ...
3. Horse breeding ... ... ... ...
4. Fairs and shows ... .... ... ...
CHAPTER V.
Provincial establishment ... .... ... ...
CHAPTER VI.
Subordinate establishment ... ... ...
CHAPTER VII.
LABORATORIES—
(a) General ... .... ... ...
(b) Investigation of diseases—North Bihar Range ...
„
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Central „
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Orissa
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CHAPTER VIII.
Expenditure ...
...
...
...
...
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CHAPTER IX.
Prevention of cruelty to animals ... .... ... ...
CHAPTER X.
Royal Commission on Agriculture ... .. ...
CHAPTER XI.
GENERAL REMARKS—
(a) Elephant khedda ... .... ... ...
(b) Bye-laws ... .... ... ...
(c) Hackney carriage and ekka services ......
(d) Propaganda ... .... ... ...
(e) Acknowledgments ... ... .... ... ...
Appendices ... .... ... ...
Page.
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i—xxxi
THE PROVINCE
OF
BIHAR AND ORISSA
Showing the Districts where outbreaks
of cattle disease occurred in 1931-32
Scale 1 Inch=32 Miles
P. B. Riley, Major l. V. S.
Director of Veterinary Services,
Bihar & Orissa
Zincographed in the B. & O. Survey Office, Gulzarbagh. Patna.
[Maximum limit 30 pages.]
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CIVIL VETERINARY DEPARTMENT
BIHAR AND ORISSA
FOR THE YEAR
1931-32.
CHAPTER I.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.
I HELD charge of the department throughout the year.
Assistant Director Babu Nilmoni Chattarji continued to be in
charge of this range under my direct supervision and guidance in
important matters.
2. I was promoted to the selection grade with effect from
the 21st March 1931, while the designation of the head of the
department was changed from Director and Veterinary Adviser
to Government to that of Director of Veterinary Services from
the 15th October 1931.
3. During the year, I visited all the districts of the province
except Angul. The latter district was also programmed for,
but it could not be reached owing to a sudden attack of fever.
While on tour, I visited many important stations in the interior,
saw the conditions which prevailed in those places, and inspected
63 veterinary hospitals and dispensaries located not only at
district and subdivisional headquarters, hut also in mufassal
towns. I also inspected the office of the Assistant Director
in charge of Orissa Range at Cuttack.
4. In addition to the above, I inspected the breeding herd
of the Patna Cattle Farm and visited the buffalo breeding farm
at Sipaya.
5. I attended both meetings of the Advisory Board of the
Imperial Council of Agricultural Research held at Simla and
Delhi. While at Simla, I took part in the deliberation at
a conference of veterinary officers which decided upon the
programme of work to be followed by the Provincial Disease
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Investigation Officers and discussed informally with Col. A. Olver,
C.B., C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., the Animal Husbandry Expert, the scheme
for the appointment of a Disease Investigation Officer proposed
for this province.
6. In the month of December, under instructions from
Government, I examined a number of horses at the Remount
Depôt, Calcutta, out of which 36 were passed and taken over
by the Mounted Military Police. A question having arisen for
transferring this Force from Arrah to Patna and locating it in
the temporary jail buildings at the Patna Farm, the Inspector-
General of Police, the Superintending Engineer of Public
Health, the Superintending Engineer, South Bihar Circle and
myself, inspected the site and buildings. This question was,
however, dropped due to a change in the political outlook.
I examined the horses of the Escort of His Excellency the
Governor, preliminary to its disbandment and gave my opinion
regarding their disposal.
7. As in the previous year, I acted as a member of the
Board of Examiners at the annual examinations of the Bihar
and Orissa Veterinary College ; as an external examiner at the
annual examinations of the Bengal Veterinary College at Belga-
chia and as President and senior examiner of the Bihar and Orissa
Veterinary Examination Board at the half-yearly professional
examinations for the subordinate staff in April and October.
8. The second S. P. C. A. show was organised by me.
I also attended the Sonepur Fair and the annual Camp of Exercise
of the Bihar Light Horse at Muzaffarpur.
9. Altogether I spent 126 days on tour and travelled 2,644
miles by road, in addition to the usual rail journeys.
10. At headquarters, besides the ordinary office routine,
I submitted a special scheme for the appointment of a Disease
Investigation Officer and some proposals relating to the adminis-
tration of the college, such as the proposal for redistribution of
subjects, accommodation of students, grant of leave to students,
abolition of the aggregate system of examinations, selection of
students by the governing body, starting of a post-graduate class
at the college, etc. I also submitted proposals for the considera-
tion of the Orissa Boundary Committee and for the committee
appointed to advise Government on retrenchment, I appeared
before the latter committee and gave evidence.
11. Special Officer, Mr. S. K. Sen, M.R.C.V.S., on comple-
tion of his training at the Imperial Institute of Veterinary
Research, Muktesar, was again attached to the head office and
permitted to do office work connected with the Central Range.