MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

During the pre-Independence period, the spread of education was confined only to a few towns. Though quite a good number of schools were located at Dhulia, other towns and villages hardly had any school. However, there did exist primary schools which were few and far between. In 1951, immediately after the independence, the total number of persons engaged in the field of education was only 3,143 of which 352 were females.

The introduction of planning, after 1951, for the country's all-round development, proved a boon in the field of education. The expansion of education was given top priority in the Five-Year Plans. Accordingly, a number of schools and colleges were opened almost at each and every town of the district. Primary schools were started in distant and interior villages. A number of educational facilities were made available to the common people. As a result, there had been a remarkable increase in the number of persons engaged in this profession. The Census of 1961 gives the figure at 5.258.

The following statement gives a category-wise split-up of persons employed in the educational services in the year 1961: ―

The rest were research and related workers.

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