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The second effect of this is that the technical school base becomes a good delivery channel for introducing any new technology. They know the language of technology. Because of the benefit to the community, community funding in all our schools provides the infrastructure and equipment. Thus, the community involvement not only makes the school a real community development centre, but also reduces the cost of vocational education by around 50-75%, improving quality at the same time. 2. Trainee Entrepreneur Scheme This is an interesting idea that meets the needs of 2/3 sections of society and reduces the cost of education markedly. We have a large population of dropouts who need to be usefully employed. There are no salaried jobs to give them. But there are many jobs to be done for the community as also reconstruction jobs, which can be made by small enterprises. In order to start such enterprises the dropout needs the following. • Motivation: given by seeing another person from the same class doing a business and earning well. 'If he can, why not me?' Training: we can provide the skill/training in the same school giving vocational training to formal students. Capital and infrastructure: we appoint a trained 'drop-out' as an instructor in the school. He operates his business with the school facilities and gives hands-on training to students. He gets the surplus from the operation, the community gets service at a modest cost and students get a good education. Our schools have such production cum service centres for each of the four subjects. (Examples: making cots and racks, rewinding electric < Rural Development Through Education System 110