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education”. (Ref: Chapter 7, "work education in schools.... vocationalisation") One of the crucial features of Dr. Kalbag's education system is the organic link between the school and the community. He always spoke about the school surrounded by community and not a school in isolation. He envisaged a vibrant and symbiotic relationship between school and community. School would provide various kinds of services to the community and students would get an opportunity to exercise their skills in real life situation thereby learning the practical and economical skills attached to the skills. He thought about community services as an economic transaction between school and community necessary to make the community a stakeholder in the proper functioning of school and to make the school little independent financially. This feature of school and community link is also the one, which is difficult to implement through state machinery. Various developmental schemes by government having specific degree of community participation as an important condition for its implementation have failed miserably. There are varieties of reasons for this phenomenon, which need not be discussed here. However, Dr. Kalbag was confident that such link could be established since the niche of rural service sector has remained untouched by the commercial forces, which are now targeting rural markets. He was of the opinion that the schools should use this service opportunity for providing paid services to the rural community which will cement the link with the community and will also allow to cover a portion of cost of education. It is a well-known fact that the schools run by state machinery are in a pathetic state everywhere. There is no dearth of reports, studies Rural Development Through Education System 16