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development. We also believe, that technology is needed to increase efficiency and effectiveness of everything we do. To spread the available technology to masses, we need to educate them. Such technology based services can only be made accessible to villagers through small enterprises. Small enterprises will give boost to local economy which in turn helps in real development of villages. Technology Education School society Rural Development Enterprise Development Fig 1. Education through Development To realize the vision of RDES, VA has following programmes, that are interlinked to each others (fig. 2). Education is at the center of the VA's program. Technology development is another area of VA's work. Technology developed will be disseminated through education programme. Students learn by ‘Learning while doing' methodology and while doing so they provide services to the community at a modest cost. This gives students experience and confidence to start their own enterprises. Appropriate technologies will get disseminated through these rural enterprises and at the same time large pool of technology-literate will be created through the school programme, who will have scientific temper and work culture imbibed in them. Rural Development Through Education System 264