The present War has shown how the entire population has to be mobilised for defence purposes and the mobilisation has to be not for speeches, in which we are not lacking but for action by hand physical endurance. If total War implies the total preparation of the people then I claim that the balanced composite Matriculation must be made compulsory throughout India.

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Mr Wood further told me, when I discussed my scheme with him, that he saw no inherent difficulty excepting the question of teachers. And he made a constructive suggestion, that they were training a very large number of people for War purposes under the Government of India Scheme for the training of Technicians and that a large number of these would be available to take up teacherships in the composite balanced High Schools where culture and technical education will form a harmonious blend.

ANNEXURE F.

MEMORANDUM ON THE SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION SUBMITTED TO THE CENTRAL ADVISORY BOARD OF EDUCATION IN INDIA AT THEIR MEETING HELD AT MADRAS JANUARY 1941

ANNEXURE G.

MEMORANDUM CONTAINING THE VIEWS OF PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS, LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS, ETC., WITH REGARD TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE BOARD ON THE QUESTION OF SEPARATING THE SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION FROM THE MATRICULATION EXAMINATION, SUBMITTED TO THE CENTRAL ADVISORY BOARD OF EDUCATION IN INDIA AT THEIR SEVENTH MEETING HELD IN HYDERABAD (DECCAN) IN JANUARY 1942