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training and demonstration camps for them, numbering hundreds of millions (nearly 50% of the population) for various technologies - the cost will be prohibitive and the progress will be slow and uncertain. The teachers/ organisers have to be paid and supervised, the participants have to be compensated for attending training camps and the cost of materials used in the demonstrations must be borne. Also in such training camps, the participant is at best doing a "technology” along with others in a location away from his home for a finite time. There is high probability that after going home, where he tries to reproduce the same results, he is unable to do so - and then he has nobody to refer to and forgets about the training. Thus, the training camps apart from being expensive and slow are far from satisfactory in delivering the technology that can have a longterm effect. The Transmitter - Receiver Concept: We have a large number of radio and TV broadcasting stations. These communicate all over the world by using electromagnetic waves. But only those suitably equipped with "receivers" can tune into them. Different technologies are constantly being "broadcast" in various modes. Only those who are suitably equipped (with prerequisite knowledge/skills) can receive them. So our ultimate goal should be to raise the mental skills level of our target population such that, they can receive and have access to the technologies they need. This is what education really means. But this will take a long time. In the immediate future, can we set up a "receiver" in every village and hamlet who receives audio visual messages, masters them and then gives them by person-to-person contact to the BPL sections in the village? The organisations that reach into every village are - 1) The Gram Sevak and the Gram Panchayat in the BDO-Zilla Parishad Chain. Rural Development Through Education System 118
