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Nature of Services: We have already seen the different types of services provided by Vigyan Ashram. In the schools, however, the services were predominantly workshop services. Electrical services, water prospecting and agriculture were rather low. This was more due to the apathy of the instructors. Under pressure, they have shown that they can rear poultry and run poultry courses. This adds substantially to the monthly service figure. For example 50 birds per month add more than Rs. 1500 to the service quota, but it involves attention outside the working hours, and so poultry was never popular among the instructors. However, boys from the village would come to us for poultry training. Over the years, the quantum of services from Vigyan Ashram has remained fairly constant, but the nature has changed. The following figures illustrate this. Year (Period) Amount in Rs. of services. 1992 2,76,702 1993 2,67,637 1994 Jan-July, 7 months 2,05,989 - Subject-wise breakup is as follows: Dairy: 21,381 Fees: 5,512 Poultry eggs: 2,500 Interest 502 Broilers: 18,721 ERM instrument 1,348 Goats: 600 Workshop 6,427 Farm: 17,972 Water Resource 1,000 Agri. Products 4,784 Rural Lab 1,987 Miscellaneous: 4,005 MechBull 14,107 Energy: 4,595 Publications 3,555 Electronics: 240 Rural Business Centre 25,000 Total for April - July 4 months Rs. 134,510 Rural Development Through Education System 85