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The number of secondary schools in the district has almost doubled during the decade 1951-61. It increased from 38 in 1951 to 65 in l961. These schools are dispersed throughout the district. In 1961 out of 65 secondary schools, Mangrulpir tahsil had 3 schools which was the smallest number as against 20 schools in the Akola tahsil. Private institutions managed about 75 per cent of these secondary schools. In 1964-65 [During 1972-73, there were 180 institutions with 56,995 students. The No. of teachers was 2,441.] the number stood at 105. The number of students enrolled during 1961-62 was 27,127, out of which 20,809 were boys and 6,318 girls as against 29,476 boy and 15,962 girl students in 1965-66. The notable feature in the sphere of female education is that their numerical strength increased by 69.8 per cent as against 41.7 per cent in case of boys in 1965-66 over that in 1961-62. The corresponding increase at the primary stage in this respect was, however, only 19.8 per cent. In general, female education seems to have made large strides during the last few years.

The total number of teachers in 1962 was 1,172 out of which 579 or 49.4 per cent were trained teachers. During the period 1965-66 the number stood at 1,524 out of which 933 were trained teachers. Other indices of secondary education compared to the Stale averages are as follows:

	Akola District	Maharashtra State
Population served by each high school.	15,629	13,805
Area served by each school (sq. miles).	53.2	40.8
Pupil-teacher ratio	23	25
Pupils per secondary school	352	388
Average annual salary per teacher (Rs.).	1,760	1,870
Average annual expenditure (direct) per secondary school (Rs.).	34.494	39,543
Average number of teachers per secondary school.	15.2	13.7

The Government's share in the total expenditure on secondary education in 1961-62 was 81.6 per cent which was incurred through various schemes such as salaries, dearness allowance, maintenance, buildings, equipment, freeships, concessions and scholarships to the students belonging to the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. During the Third Five Year Plan period an amount of Rs. 0.60 lakhs was spent on secondary education.

The Vidarbha Board of Secondary Education, Maharashtra State, Nagpur, conducts public examination at the end of the secondary school course. In 1962, the district provided 19 centres for such examination.

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