NATION REGAINS SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE 1975-76 New Deal For Youth ^ Essential articles at controlled prices reach 10,490 hostels benefiting over 956,000 students. ^ Supply of white printing paper at concessional rates brings down prices of textbooks and exercise books, 88,600 book-banks functioning in colleges and schools. ^ 103 trades and 216 industries now under apprenticeship schemes. ^ 18,800 seats added, bringing total to over 133,900 under apprenticeship schemes; 128,900 have been utilised, with 28,000 (over 20 percent) going to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes. davp 76/91