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SELECTED ARTICLE
A PLEA FOR A BROADER SYSTEM OF VETERINARY EDUCATION,
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIAN CONDITIONS
By F. WARE, C.I.E., F.R.C.V.S., I.V.S., Animal Husbandry Commissioner with the
Government of India
(Reprinted from the Veterinary Journal, Vol. 99, No. 6, June 1943)
AFTER completing thirty-five years in the
Indian service one may perhaps be excused for
indulging in a short review of the
previous
veterinary history of India and, what is more
important, for making an attempt to plan for a
better future. Incidentally, it may be observed
that the present is a very opportune time for
undertaking such a task, for when victory has
been won there can be no doubt that within a
short time India will at least attain a far more
independent
position amongst the United
Nations than she holds at present, which will
increase her already well-developed and natu-
ral desire to be self-contained in all domestic
matters, including that of veterinary educa-
tion.
In point of fact she has been more dependent
on Britain in the past in the matter of higher
grade veterinary education than in most other
sciences, and this needs a word of explanation.
Efforts have been made in India from time to
time to introduce higher courses in veterinary
education, on the lines of similar courses in the
other sciences, but they have all foundered on
the rock of finance In dealing with a bureau-
cratic system of government the greatest dis-
advantage from which a profession can suffer
is smallness in size, and this probably counts
far more in a poor country like India than else-
where. The demand for veterinary graduates
of an advanced type has not been large enough
in the past to justify the expense of setting up
a separate college designed to turn out this
type of man and India has had to wait until
public opinion had been educated sufficiently
to demand a higher standard of education
amongst the rank and file of her veterinary
profession and, incidentally, be prepared to pay
these men for the extra time and money spent
on their education, before a five-years' degree
course could be introduced.
Even now the arrangement is not uniform
throughout India.
Graduates in veterinary
science from the Madras University have already
appeared, and arrangements are well advanced
for the affiliation of the Lahore Veterinary Col-
lege with the Punjab University, but in the case
of the other three Veterinary Colleges at Bom-
bay, Calcutta and Patna the matter is still
under consideration. However, a good examlpe is