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RAJKUMAR COLLEGE, RAJKOT.
Dates of visit.—3rd to 5th February 1933.
Lt.-Col. J. C. Tate, Political Agent, Western Kathiawar Agency, was
associated with me in my inspection of the college. His report is appended
low.
2, Management.—The management is vested in a Council consisting of
16 members, 12 of whom are elected. The remaining four are as under :—
(1) Agent to the Governor General, Western India States, who is
Prosident of the Council.
(2) A Political Officer.
(3) The Educational Commissioner with the Government of India.
(4) The Principal of the College, who acts as Seeretary.
Only one meeting of the College Council is held cach year; there is no
working committee,
The college is not a registered society. It is, I think, desirable that the
question of registration be taken up by the College Council as in the draft
scheme approved by the Secretary of State such registration seems to be
regarded as necessary.
3. Finance.—The income and expenditure account for the year 1932-33
is as follows :-—
Rs.
Fees from kumare . . . . . . . 20,000
Jnterest on Endowment Fand — - . . . . . 49,800
Misrelaneous . . . : . . . : . 2,407
Total ‘ 82,207
while the expenditure, both recurring and non-recurring, comes to Rs. 1,20,766,
leaving a deficit balance of Rs. 38.559. This deficit will, however, be met
from the contribution of Rs. 44,884 by the Kathiawar States for the purpose
and any surplus remaining after the year’s working will be transferred to the
reserve fund. As the Kathiawar States interested in the welfare of the
college expressed to the Government of India their willingaess to undertake
all financial responsibility the annual Government subvention of Rs. 10,000
to this college was, as an experimental measure, discontinued, on the other
hand the colfege now pays Rs. 5,230 annually for leave and pension contribu-
tions of the masters Jent to it. The grants for games are low. There is no
allotment at all for prizes in sports. ‘The reserve fund of the college invested
in Government Promissory Notes amounts to about rupees ten lakhs.
There is no audit conducted by an outside agency but this has hitherto
been considered unnecessary in view of the rigorous scrutiny to which the
accounts are subjected before being finally passed.
4. Cost of college education —Fees are charged on a sliding scale varying
from Rs. 600 to Rs, 2,400 a year according to the status of the individual
kumar and the income of the State from which he comes. The cost of college
education for an ordinary kumar comes to between Rs. 3,000 and Rs. 4.000
a year. This high cost of education is engaging the attention of the Collere
Council which appointed a sub-committee to consider the question of (1) the
amalgamation of this college with the Talukdari Girassia School, Wadhwan
Camp, and (i) the curtailment of college expenses. T understand that the
sub-committee has recommended the amalgamation of the two institutions and
with this object in view considers it necessary to have (1) common messing,
(2) uniform clothing on simple but adequate lines and (8) the gradual intro-
duction of the dormitory system. If the recommendations of this sub-com-
mittee are carried out by the Council the expenses of an ordinary knmar
will come to less than Rs. 1,000 a year, Though, of course, there are several
obvious objections which could he put forward against the scheme, it is desir-
able that it should he thoroughly examined by tHe College Council. Any