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past them was very accurate and original. He has further observed that all sections of the society do not receive knowledge uniformly in our knowledge distribution system, i.e. education system. Dr. Kalbag has illustrated this point by giving the example of green revolution where the fruits of new technological development couldn't reach to all the farmers due to lack of intellectual and psychological preparedness for the same. He also speaks of lack of industrial culture in agriculture and suggests a remedy of good education system for this problem. He thought of education as a knowledge distribution system or technological delivery system. He has also emphasized that education system is the only effective system to achieve delivery of technology. Dr. Kalbag invented an education system based on the principles of "learning while doing", "multi skill training", "two-way link between school and community" and "instructor as entrepreneur". He invented this new system based on his own past experience as well experiments by him in Vigyan Ashram. He called it as his invention and termed it as "Rural development through education system". His ision was to see this invention spread all over India in all the schools. Dr Kalbag was born on 23 October 1928 in Mumbai. He was the voungest son of Sheshagiri N. Kalbag who had migrated to Mumbai from his native Karwar, in 1903. He did his B.Sc. from the (Royal) Institute of Science. After B.Sc. he joined the Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT) and did his B.Sc. Tech. with distinction, standing first among all the disciplines. After doing his M.Sc. Tech. in 1952 on Electrolytic oxidation of Soaps, a project he had formulated himself, he joined the food technology department in the University of Illinois, USA. Here he worked on polarographic Rural Development Through Education System 9