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A school teaching how to make profits from the vocation. that cannot Having said this, we must accept that there are run its constraints when educational institution operates workshop profitably as a commercial unit. We must therefore evolve cannot create the concept of "Semi commercial" operation. confidence among The Constraints: the students. 1. The business environment is lacking. The objective of the real situation is, in fact, to create the business environment. 2. The location is chosen for education not profitability: This is a valid reason. We should therefore consider the profitability as an index and not the volume of profits. 3. Work culture: An educational institution works for much shorter periods than an industrial concern. This should change. A vocational institute should work like an industry. This is the leaning of real life situation. 4. Overheads of education cannot be borne by the school production centre. The salary of teachers should not be charged and the depreciation of equipment may be charged only in the proportion that it is used. This is the concept of semi commercial operation. 5. Management system will not be as well honed as when production becomes the main activity, As against this, the educational institution has greater opportunity to experiment and innovate and not charge it to costs. Only when the technique becomes "proven" it can be included in the commercial operation. Semi commercial Operation: The concept of semi commercial operation has been proposed to mitigate the constraints of an educational institution in conducting a commercial operation. Rural Development Through Education System 79