DELHI: The Government of India are preparing a scheme by which all girls now serving in different War Departments, will be kept employed after the war. The number of such girls is estimated to be in the neighbourhood of six figures, about 8000 alone in Begum Shah Nawaz’s department.

Details about the nature of their post-war employments are not available yet, but it is believed that the jobs of typists in all the departments of the Government of India, except perhaps that of confidential clerks, are likely to go to ladies. Other light clerical jobs also might be given to them. The rest would be taken in the various new departments to be created in connection with post-war planning.

[Meanwhile, in Madras] the “Grow More Food” campaign has resulted in an increase during the past year of one million acres in the area under cultivation in the Presidency. Total acreage at present is 2 millions. The extra yield expected as a result of this increased production is 11 lakhs tons of food-grains.

Total extent of Government waste land brought under cultivation under the “Grow More Food” campaign up-to the first quarter of 1944 is over 90,000 acres. (Dawn, Delhi)

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, August 31, 2014

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