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EDUCATION AND CULTURE
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SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Facilities for the education in fine arts etc., art also provided by some institutions working in the district. The number of such institutions in 1965-66 was 15 and that of the students enrolled therein was 1,153 including 912 boys and 241 girls. The number of teachers was 147. The following table shows some of the special and professional educational institutions working in the district during 1967-68.
TABLE No. 2
Special and Professional Institutions, 1967-68
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Name of Institution |
Type of Institution |
Enrolment |
Teachers |
The Government Hospital, Akola. |
Nursing and Midwifery |
104 |
12 |
Homeopathy Bioc. College, Akola. |
Homeopathy |
194 |
6 |
Shree Janata Homeopathy, Akola. |
Homeopathy |
60 |
10 |
R. T. Ayurvedic, Akola. |
Ayurvedic |
133 |
24 |
Marwadi Bal Sanskrit Pathshala, Akola. |
Oriental |
14 |
1 |
Vanita Shivankala Vidyalaya, Akola. |
Arts and Crafts |
40 |
5 |
Ladies Home Class, Akola. |
Arts and Crafts |
28 |
3 |
School for the Deaf, Akola. |
Deaf and Dumb. |
49 |
7 |
Scouts and guides: In the year 1965-66, 4,000 boys and 1,000 girls received training to serve as scouts and guides, respectively. There were 170 trained scout teachers.
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