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78 should be founded and those already existing supported, while government aid should be given to those founded by private enterprise. It was a great step in advance, for without this generous assistance on the part of the Government it would have been impossible for education to spread as rapidly as it has since done. The new Education Department was at once established with a Director of Public Instruction at its head and a large number of Inspectors under him. Schools for the training of teachers were established and with a rapidity that was astonishing. High English, Middle English and Vernacular schools sprang up all over the country in the years that followed.

The work that Ramtanu did during his four years tenure of office at Uttarpara long survived him. Many a young mind there came under his influence, receiving an impression that it was never afterwards to lose. Those who had benefited by his teaching and example, gratefully acknowledging their debt, erected after his death more than forty years later this tablet to his memory in the school where he had taught—