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expanding, profit making market. The State should invest only when the schools are coming forward voluntarily to take up the course on stipulated conditions. The State bodies will have to 'market' the course and give the benefits. The Ten-Year Perspective. This ten-year period will be divided into 3 parts. 1 Zero time phase-the prerequisites should be in place at the start. 2 Three (3) year phase -First lot being implemented. Going through fine-tuning. 3 The seven 7 year phase when the programme is growing exponentially. The Zero Phase • Work experience course is introduced in the primary schools, in a phased manner. All schools have electricity and telephone connections. All schools have Internet connectivity with local call rates. Recommended monitoring and feed-back system is in place. Local self-government looks at technical schools for doing their technical work, having higher technical units as resource group. New schools are enrolled only through their agreeing to raise the finance for the infrastructure. This number is a performance indicator. • The programme is ready for introduction in those schools that volunteer to pay for the infrastructure. Three-Year Phase. • The prevocational course will be introduced in 100 schools in each of 6 selected states. The vocational programme in the new form is started in schools after the 3rd year, when pass-outs from the prevocational programme are coming out. The number will be decided by the demand. Seven-Year Phase In this phase, the number of institutions for each level will grow at Rural Development Through Education System 113