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Under the programme of free, universal and complusory education implemented by the government, there has been an appreciable increase in the number of literates and consequently in the literacy percentage of the district. A large number of people are now taking keen interest in higher or specialised education to improve their monetary prospects. An increase in the number of persons belonging to this profession is a definite indication of the educational achievements 0f the district. The following statement shows the number of persons in educational services during the census years 1921 and 1931.

	1921			1931
	Actual workers			Principal occupants
	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	famales
Instruction	949	908	41	1,622	1,513	109
(i) Professors and teachers of all kinds.	944	907	37	1,565	1,470	95
(ii) Clerks and servants connected with education.	5	1	4	57	43	14

The. 1951 Census enumerated the number of persons employed in 'educational services and research' at 2,581, and classified these services as follows:—

	Persons	Males	Females
Educational services and research (If production is on a small scale productive enterprises attached to a research or a training institution).	2,581	2,301	280
(i) All other professors, lecturers and teachers.	88	67	21
(ii) Managers, clerks and servants of educational and research institutions, including libraries, museums, etc.	2,493	2,234	259

As per the 1961 Census, 6,459 persons were engaged in 'educational and scientific services'. Their classification is as under.

TABLE No. 1

Total number of Persons engaged in Educational Services, 1961

	Total			Rural			Urban
	Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females
Educational and scientific service.	6,454	5,691	768	3,565	3,332	233	2,894	2,359	535
i) Educational services such as. those rendered by technical colleges, technical schools and similar technical and vocational institutions	427	407	16	73	70	3	350	337	13
ii) Educational services, such as. those rendered by colleges, schools and similar other institutions of non-technical type.	6,014	5,262	752	3,490	3,260	230	2,524	2,002	522
iii) Scientific services and research institutions not capable of classification under any individual group.	22	22	—	2	2	—	20	20	—

According to the aforementioned statement, of the total number of persons belonging to this category. 45 per cent were urban dwellers. The statement further reveals that of the total number of persons engaged in educational services, such as, technical and vocational institutions, 85 per cent were urbanites.

In 1965-66 [Source—Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Govt. of Maharashtra, Bombay.] there were 1,576 institutions of different types imparting education in the district. The following statement shows the number of institutions as also the number of teachers employed in them in the year 1965-66.

Category	Number of institutions	Teachers
Category	Number of institutions	Trained	Untrained	Total
1. Pre-primary	12	16	9	25
2. Primary schools.	1,434	4,316	1,029	5,345
3. Secondary schools.	105	933	591	1,524
1. Higher institutions.	10	*	*	173
5. Special schools.	15	*	*	147

* Separate figures of trained and untrained teachers are not available.

The earnings of the majority of those engaged in these services depend upon the type of the work carried out, whether trained or untrained, as also the educational qualifications attained. A salary of a school teacher is low as compared with that of a teacher in a college. But a teacher of the primary school earns even less than a teacher of the secondary school.

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