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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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