Compulsory Education in Punjab.

IN its review of the annual report on the progress of education in the Punjab for the year ending March 31, 1918, the Local Government enters into an elaborate defence of its omission to provide for the remission of fees in the draft Elementary Education Bill. It adduces two classes of reasons in support of this omission, one for municipal and the other for rural areas. As regards the first it says:-“Primary education is for the most part supplied by the primary departments of aided secondary schools. Several important municipalities only maintain one lower primary school each. It would cost such municipalities little to remit fees in the municipal schools, but they would thereby be forcing a similar remission on aided schools who did not wish to lose their poorer pupils.”