Himalayan Times (1962)

April 1, 1962

Himalayan Times

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education level sluu^iug
leonnioal education either
id the multipurpose school
tr the junior technical
tohooU or technical high
hdioulH as ia Maharashtra

.and Gujaiat prepare th<ra
delves ns apprentice* aud
can be noil helplui in
fi ling the gap uf require-
ment* in tliltVrent ludus
tries. 1 he various expe-
riments iii having techni-
cal ami soieutifio bias in
secondary educat on w.ll

, have (,lieir impact in di
veniny students to vooa
tioual programm.s. Ques
lions such as integration
of trade aud industrial
ednca'ion with school
education will wm> up
gradually and naeissar.v
adjustineoU might be
desirable during the course
of this development.

Change is as great a
characteristic in industrial
trail ing as in industry
itself '-i-vr methods and
time ssvini! deviues are
being eruplojed in the
develi pment of indu-dries
"and the content ofindus-
trial training will undergo
change! in the same way.
There arp, how. ver, some
basio principles of trade
education which have to
be undeistucd and practi-
sed. Vocational i■ducation
is a s cial movement and
is not oulyreiat'd to the
school programmes but
also the programme of
further education, adult
eduoatioo or continuation

oiruool- systems, its main
purpnsa is to fit men and
women for usef il employ-
m m The programmes,
therefore, have to be or-
ganised so as to be flezi
ble, oip'be of modifica--
tion and adjustment in
respect of' duration and
qualitative improvement
and sp.'O fic in training.

best Tillage in

WESt BENGAL
l)arj»eling, March 26
Sri M N Choudhtiry,
Deputy Commissioner,
Darjeelii g; presented Rs.
l.OuO as Siate award to
the Mandal of Pubung
village, adjudged best
village in West Bengal to
1UK0 (U. At a biief tunc-
lion there this morning
Sri Cboudhury hoped'that
other adjoining villages
Would he inspired by Pur
bong's success and the
village itself would . con-
tinue to prosper. The
credit for this hon< ur
should rest on the vil-
lagers who bad ulti iz "i
Q >ver nn«nt grants pro
rwrly BSrlier, the Man-
d I -ad the village had
received Government
grants since l95t for de-
velopment schemes and
last year it had received
more than Rs RU.dUO
under th» rural water
supplv soheme.

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HIMALAYAN STORES,
KALIMPONG.

GERMAN STUDENT
ARRESTED
Darjeeling, March 27
Harold Ulbrioh, a
German student on s
hiking tour round the
world, was arretted this
i morning by the Sikkim-se
police at Pakyong, just
over the Indo Sikktm bor-
der after he surreptitiously
entered Sikkim without
a permit. He was handed
over to the Indian polio*
and is now in jail facing
charges under the Foreig-
ners Aot.

MAHENDRA COMING TO
INDIA ON APRIL 18

New Delhi, March 28
King Mahendra of
Nepal has aooepted Mr.
Nehru's invitation and il
visiting New Delhi on
April 18, it was simulta-
neously announced her*
and in Kathmandu today.

The visit will be for
four or five days. A
spokesman nf the Ex-
ternal Affairs Ministry said
he did not know who
whould be aocompanying
the Nepalese King.

761000 TIBETAN LEFT

TIBET SO FAR
New Delhi, Mai oh 27
About 76,009 Tibetans
have left their country
since it was occupied by
China, acoording to sour-
ces olose to tba Dalai
Lama. They added that
about 45,000 of these
refugees ware now in India.