INDIAN' PUPIL PBOBLEM ?9 suitable tionn of particular imperative necessity. a list of a few for fuel and for the climate and soil contit- localities, is an immediate and I have appended to ?his trees, which I am advised paper by an experienced Fores? Officer for growth as fuel. take up with much are well-suited for selection The fores? departments may also advantage ?he question of the systematic rearing of special fuel plantations in different parts of the country and working them on a rotation,
which will keep them in undiminished strength.
Lastly, the present' haphazard system of fixing prices and seigniorage rates (uniform for many Madras districts, irrespective of differences in cost of extrsc- rich, transport and local demand) the commercial treatment of fuel. sound, the best thing eventually in has to yield .to Hard as it may the interests of the fuel consumer in India will be so to adjust the prices as not to make the Forest Department incur any loss out of confusion of thought or sentimentalism, and to make any rise in the price the consumer himself, so as to teach to be really economical. On the industrial side the would advocate are the of fuel fall on him the need principal. utilisation oi measures I water-power . the future, considered ?he power Hydro-electric' schemes In the sparsely wooded in conserving our side by side with ?he West ?he large firewood the other Coast from interests of supplies are denmud for generated, the economic justification for will become more apparent. area in which Madurn, the second cily in our province, stands, ii only the ? ?e utills?ion of the power o?.the waves ?or the. generation o! eleotrie4t? will prol?bly be out of the question o.a seecunt of tcchniesi find seenorate is particularly possible over Bombay downwards. ? And if whereever it is available, in sufficient quantity. This
