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essential for the industrial, economic, and overall development
            of our nation.
               3.2 Col. Cliburn Committee

               Lokmanya informed in this editorial, that government had
            appointed  a committee under the chairmanship of Cornel
            Cliburn to study and report on the present status of industrial
            education in the country.

               3.3 Revival of Domestic Industries
               Tilak stated the fact that the goods which were being produced
            earlier in our country, are now being imported from European
            countries,  mainly  from  England.  He  articulated  the  need  of
            providing  training  to  the artisans  and manufacturers  of the
            same products which were being imported from the developed
            countries. He remarks that it was the only way to revive the
            trade and industry in our country.
               3.4 Bifurcation of Industries

               Tilak informed the readers that government had passed a
            resolution to bifurcate the industries in two sections:
               Section I – Factories requiring huge capital and big plants &
            machineries e.g., Textile Mills, Sugar Factories, etc.
               Section  II – Small and medium size  industries  which  can
            be started at different places with minimum capital e.g., locks,
            match boxes, buttons, umbrellas, spectacles, soaps, knives,
            varnishes, oils, leather, paints, etc.
               Tilak suggested that rich people should  come  forward to
            start big factories in big cities like Mumbai, Calcutta, Madras,
            Allahabad, Lahore, Kanpur, etc.  These  factories  should  take
            initiative to  open  the  training  institutes  near those  factories
            to train the skilled and semi-skilled manpower required in the
            concerned industries.

               He quoted the example that there were several cotton textile
            mills  in  Mumbai,  so  the  mill  owners  (mainly  rich  Parsi  and
            Bhatye community) should start the industrial schools to train
            the mill workers required in Mumbai. Similarly, the industrial
            schools  should  be  opened  in  Kolhapur  to  train  the  leather

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