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Rh A Civil Service class has lately been opened again at the Nizam College, and of this, the Finance Minister said in the preface to his Budget Note for 1323 Fasli (1913-1914) : "If there were no other reforms of any kind to record this year, the institution of a regular Civil Service would render the year remarkable. The first batch of students has now been selected after examination, they will go through a course of two years' training at the Nizam College and of one year's practical training in British India."

It may also be mentioned that a technical class in connection with the government workshops at the Mint has been opened, on a small scale, and that it is hoped to provide thus, later on, technical education of a serviceable type.

Having seen that the attendance at school is much higher among Mahomedans than Hindus, it is not surprising to read in the Census that per 1,000 inhabitants, 59 Mahomedans, and 23 Hindus are literate. And we read that of the Animists, who number 285,722 of His Highness's subjects, only 247 are literate. The figures given in the Census are said not to be very accurate as concerns the jagirs; but they go to prove