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and that this will happen, with some persistent persuasion, not only in their technical work but also in their everyday life." (Ref: Chapter 2, "Rural development through education system") He relentlessly used such feedbacks to improve the educational system, which he was devising. The process was similar to that of designing of a prototype usually employed by scientists. He says, "I feel like an inventor. My invention is the education system that integrates education and development, one that is close to everyday life and which costs so little to implement. My vision is that one day I will see this invention spread all over India in all schools". (Ref: Chapter 1, "Perspective plan for Vigyan ashram") Though the education system developed by Dr. Kalbag at Vigyan ashram is specifically devised for secondary education, he has also discussed guidelines for school education from lower primary to higher secondary level. (Ref: Chapter 7, “work education in schools.... vocationalisation”) He has also written about "information referral system” which will form a vertical connection from the field through school, community polytechnic upto highest technological institutes such as IITs. Dr. Kalbag was national chairman of the committee on community polytechnic scheme formed in 1987. This committee had recommended the steps to be taken to form a nationwide "information referral system". As per this system, the students in the village schools would collect data about local problems and local needs. Such data would be transmitted upwards to the higher technical institutions such as IITs, through community polytechnic. Community Polytechnic would function as a trainer for the school and would also work on the data gathered from school. Wherever needed the higher technical institutions would utilise their human resource to work on such problems, which could not be solved at lower levels. Thus a system was envisaged, Rural Development Through Education System 18
