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and Development Wing. That is, it must receive, as well as transmit information. For this purpose again the rural youth, the students, the Nehru Yuvak Kendras and the Jana Shikahan Nilayams and all village youth groups should be involved and trained to discuss their problems, collect relevant data, quantify it, identify the problems, spot opportunities, and then use the referral system for their solution. In the referral system, the problems and the relevant information travels in the direction of increasing expertise and the problem is referred to the group where the challenge of the problem matches the talents of the research group. Such a scheme has been elaborated for the Ministry of HRD during the appraisal of the Community Polytechnic Scheme in 1987. The proposal for the Technology Delivery System through schools, described here, really involves only networking of the various schemes already included in the programmes of the various Ministries viz. 1. Community Polytechnics Scheme. 2. Vocationalisation of Education 3. Jana Shikshan Nilayams and Nehru Yuvak Kendras all from Ministry of HRD 4. Krishi Vigyan Kendras from Ministry of Agriculture, 5. Health Extension Programs from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Additional funds will be required only if the coverage is to be extended beyond present plans. But the networking of these schemes will increase the benefits beyond those of the individual schemes. And then Education will really lead to development. -- - Rural Development Through Education System 124 - - -- - - - -