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We should not be profiteering but a just profit is what propels development. How can we spot an opportunity? One generally looks for statistics to find out where the need is most. But there is a danger. the figures may be not accurate. they may have changed drastically even during the time, it takes to collect, and publish. they may give a static picture not a dynamic. If you want to fire a rocket at an enemy aeroplane, you don't aim at the plane. You judge its speed and aim at where the plane would be when the rocket reaches that distance. So you need to know the trends and their "speed". This you will not get in most statistics. So how many factories of a kind are in your area, does not tell you whether they are doing well and growing or whether they are becoming sick. You should go and find out how they are, and what they need. This is how you should use survey information. Another way is to use logic. If there are 20 mopeds in your village, they must be needing repairs and servicing. Is the facility available? So use the survey report. All districts have surveys made. Contact your District Industrial Center for your survey needs, as a base to make your own survey. Write down all the information you gather. An enterprise is built not on the motivation of profit, but of servicehelping somebody to live a little more comfortably. All inventions that have given successful enterprises have made life more comfortable; all innovations have helped some one and got paid for the help. Look around you. Are there no groups, who need be a trial and error method. But it is a system of education based on real life situation; it can't go wrong. Don't start with more sophisticated jobs than you can confidently manage. Remember the Technology Ladder. Once you get on to it you keep moving up. Remember the advice given by Mahatma Gandhi. The customer is the cause for which your enterprise exists. < Rural Development Through Education System 231