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 KHE 233 The following tables give details of district local funds, their receipts, and disbursements Receipts. Rs, . 8,561 3> .. 11 One per cent road cess school cess. district dak lucal and margin Education fund Diepensary » Pound Nazúl 57 10. 8,689 2,242 24,661 2,871 1,603 4,264 ke 39 2,166 Total Provincial allotment 54,817 29,166 Grand TOTAL 84,003 Charges. Education Hospital and dispensaries District dak Poand Núi Public Works- Communications Civil Bqildings, &c. Establishment, &c. Rs, 18,997 8,248 2,365 590 1,312 33,096 10,960 8,014 .. 52,070 Total 89,677 Schools.-- There are three Anglo-vernacular schools:-- Neme of school. Number of papile. Number learning English. 6. Lakhimpur Gola Mubamdi 158 89 120 ... 88 47 77 There are also twelve vernacular schools with 467 pupils. In respect of education it is the most backward district in Oudh. There is one female school at Mubamdi with 17 pupils. In the adjoining district of Hardoi there are 72 schools with 3,244 pupils The cause of this differ- ence is partly the existence of large towns in the latter district; but mainly the fact that property is more distributed, there being numerous small landowners who can afford to send their children to school. In Lakhímpur school for instance, the pupils are all sons of Government servants or of shop-keepers, there being not a single landowner's son in attendance, although it is the only school in the district where a really good education can be acquired. This divorce between education and property is much to be regretted. There are no educational or literary societies, but a small book club has been recently established. The extent of the post-offices, and the degree to which the people avail themselves of them, is shown by the following tables :-