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• The school could also undertake development work for the local self -government, jobs such as building sanitary blocks, houses, watershed development surveys, contours etc. The course consists of a generic course on learning to spot opportunities and collecting information and an elective that is the specific vocation chosen by the learner. He does it as a project and submits a critical analysis and also recommendations. The Administrative structure is essentially the same as today. But all the State staff is trained for intensive use of computers and Internet. The staff will have the vocational schools and a number of new enterprises as their performance indicators. System of Implementation This is where four major innovations have been introduced. 1. Community Services for Hands-on Training The last decade has seen an explosive growth of the Rural Market. Most big commercial houses in Consumer Products and Consumables are exploiting this growth. But there is one niche of this market they cannot touch. This is the rural service sector. Our vocational schools should use this service opportunity for providing paid services to the rural community, which will cover a substantial part of the cost of material and a part of the instructor's salary. In our prevocational schools, the schools give up to Rs 70,00080,000 worth of paid services, which covers all the cost of materials, gives hands-on experience and supplements the salary of the instructor. The two major benefits are the hands-on training to improve quality of education and the modest cost services available to rural communities. For example, small villages, where commercial services are not yet available, the school gives services of fabrication and repairs, electrical wiring, water prospecting, agricultural services and even blood and urine testing and simple pathological testing. This is what we mean by Education through Reconstruction and Reconstruction through Education. Rural Development Through Education System 109