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The course work will be theoretical and practical, and the practical content will increase in the intermediate and lower level technical education. Students should be encouraged to take up projects, particularly at the graduate and postgraduate levels of technical education. They will include identifying, defining and solving problems. The following topics are, in my opinion, of prime importance in India and perhaps in all Third World countries. 1) Operations, which are inefficient and cause pollution as a consequence: a. Incomplete combustion: domestic stoves, industrial furnaces, IC engines-diesel and two stroke. b. Incomplete Recovery of product: e.g. sugar, other food and chemical industries. c. By-products not fully utilised: Sugar and many organic and inorganic industries. In these, there is money in stopping pollution. What is lacking is organisation and knowledge. 2) Factors responsible for loss of production, life, and property: a. Lack of discipline - instructions are not followed meticulously. b. Road and rail accidents. c. Concepts such as pride in work, good Citizenship, civic sense, garbage, unhygienic public places, disregard in use of public property, disregard for other peoples' needs. d. Lack of health consciousness. e. Adulteration and use of non-permissible ingredients in food products. f. Lack of safety consciousness in working/handling energy, hazardous materials, fragile things etc. g. Economical use of scarce resources e.g. water. Rural Development Through Education System 159
