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Long Range Plan (5-20 Years) a. Extend the system with variants all over India. b. Link CP scheme to education to form a single national level coordination setup. c. Institutionalize the information and referral system, from the village/grass-root level to the S and T establishments and funding agencies at the national level. d. The Institutionalizing of the various aspects of this perspective plan must be so done that, Vigyan Ashram should be superfluous and the program should go on without the Vigyan Ashram initiatives. It should become a national program. e. Develop a system so that the grass-root workers document their work in a scientific spirit, and in their own language and style. This should include validation by other peer groups and then publication in a scientific journal specifically run for and perhaps by the “barefoot" scientists and technologists. f. Make a compendium of rural needs, grid problems, which will be continuously updated, as a part of the information system. This can be used as a source for selecting research and development problems by the engineering, agricultural and other educational institutions to bring the existing urban students nearer to reality. g. Adapt the above so that the principles of education that are contained therein, are extended to urban areas also and link the urban and rural weaker sections thus helping to reverse the migration pattern. + Rural Development Through Education System 32
