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To carry forward the vision of Dr. Kalbag, VA has taken steps and reconstituted its management structure. Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) was formed by Board of Trustees of Indian Institute Of Education, the parent body of VA. The Executive Director leads the VA program under guidance of PAC. PAC recommends strategic decisions to the Board of Trustees of lIE (Indian Institute of Education). In 2008, VA core staff and well wishers met in Rihe village and formulated a vision statement of VA as follows. ‘To strive for development oriented society having scientific temper through work based education'. In March 2009, VA's RDES programme was discussed with Dr. Anil Sadgopal,_(Founder of Hoshangabad Science programme and Chairman of NCERT – National curriculum framework 2005 focus group on 'Work and Education') at Pabal. He suggested a vision statement for VA as follows. ‘To become a national resource centre for research, development and training for transformation towards work based education system and related social policies.' VA is working on 'work based education' for last 25 years. The fundamental principle is the same as that behind 'Basic Education' (Buniyadi Shiksha) propounded by Mahatma Gandhi. VA integrated technology in the concept of 'work based education'. It also demonstrated new areas and ways of providing community services. For VA, real development is the development of the intellect. To develop intellect, the best way is to give training that involves all the five senses of the student. « Rural Development Through Education System 282
