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India, and (3) the abandonment of the " Eight Units Scheme."
Besides these main recommendations the Committee made
a number of subsidiary proposals, to which we need not refer
here. Fifteen months after the publication of the Report,
the Government announced their decision that they were
unable to accept the recommendation in regard to the
" Eight Units Scheme " and that the proposal of an Indian
Sandhurst was premature. The Government, however, put
into effect the proposal for reservation of places for Indian
cadets at Sandhurst, and arranged to make Indians eligible
for admission to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich
and the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell.

Once again, in accordance with the recommendation of
the Defence Sub-Committee of the First Session of the Round
Table Conference, a committee was appointed to re-examine
the question of military education of Indian youth. And
the Government took immediate steps towards the estab-
lishment of an Indian Sandhurst. The Indian Military
Academy was opened in October 1932, at Dehra Dun. The
intake of candidates will be forty every half-year, and these
will be selected as follows :

Twelve by a competitive examination held by the
Public Service Commission ; three nominated by His
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief ; fifteen from serving
soldiers of the Indian Army ; and ten from the Indian States
forces. Under the present arrangement it is expected that
by 1935 the first group of trained officers from the college
will be eligible for the King's commission.

As regards the quality of candidates for commissions,
Sir William Ross-Barker, who was chairman of the Indian
Public Services Commission, observed that " the successful
candidates constitute very promising material for commis-
sions in the Indian Army in respect of character, intelligence
and personality." In the very first year, out of 105 candi-
dates who sat for examination, 61 passed both oral and
written tests.

It is a matter of great satisfaction to liberal Indian