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A separate circular will be issued on the subject of the grading and
qualifying tests recommended for subordinate establishments.
12. The civil veterinary officers should, in the opinion of the Govern-
ment of India, be made responsible for inspecting and reporting on the
work of all veterinary subordinates. In some provinces a plan has been
adopted of employing veterinary assistants under the Court of Wards, Municipali-
ties, and District Boards, their salaries being provided from the Wards' estates
or from municipal or local funds. His Excellency the Governor-General in
Council considers that this system has many advantages; but that, it should not
be allowed to preclude the provincial veterinary officers from inspecting and
reporting on the work of subordinates so employed.
13. Instruction.—The Government of India have in their despatch to the
Secretary of State, No. 82 of the 21st October 1891, on the organization of the
Civil Veterinary Department expressed their desire that for some time to come
no attempt should be made to provide high class veterinary instruction in any
province except in Bombay and the Punjab, where veterinary colleges have
already been established.
There appears to be at present but little opening for native practitioners
who have received a high class diploma otherwise than in Government service.
The number of men who can be so employed is too small to justify the establish-
ment of an expensive educational institution in every province. The facilities
of communication now existing will render it easy for those veterinary stu-
dents who may wish, or may be required, to obtain a high class diploma to pass
their examinations at Lahore or Bombay. A parallel case is that of Forest stu-
dents who are sent from all provinces in India, except Bombay, to receive
instruction at the Dehra Dun Forest School.
14. On the other hand, second class instruction should, in the opinion of the
Government of India, be provided in every province of such a character as to
fit the subordinate employés of the department for the duties enumerated in
paragraph 11. With the permission of local Governments and Administrations,
the Inspector-General of the Civil Veterinary Department and his Assistant will
in the course of their tours be invited to submit advice and suggestions as to the
subjects in which veterinary subordinates require instruction. Provincial
veterinary officers should, moreover, be placed in a position in which they can
guarantee the qualifications of candidates for employment, on the efficient per-
formance of which the results of their own administration must depend. In
other words, the system of instruction should be based upon the advice of the
responsible veterinary experts. These questions will be further dealt with in
the circular about to issue to which allusion is made in paragraph 11.
15. In connection with the preceding paragraphs, the Government of India
desire that a report may be submitted before the 1st January 1894 showing—
(1) The subordinate veterinary establishments as they stood on 1st June
1893, their strength and the pay of each post.
(2) The strength and cost of any other subordinate establishments
contemplated.
(3) The duties assigned to establishments, existing or proposed.
(4) The schools existing or contemplated; the strength of the educational
staff and the pay of each post.
(5) The system of instruction to be adopted.
(6) The course of instruction adopted or proposed.
16. The Civil Veterinary Department in every province will, under such
orders as may be issued by the local Government, be subject to the general
control and supervision of the provincial Department of Agriculture, and in the
annual report of that department the operations of the Veterinary Department
should be briefly noticed.
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