This programme can be successfully undertaken if primary education, based on the following three important principles, is developed:
1. Responsibility of the State be confined:
At present the entire responsibility of providing equipment, building, teachers and other requirements of the school lies on the State Government, in addition to supervision and inspection.
If we really aim at establishing a very close link between the school and the local community, we must confine the responsibility of the State mainly to supervision and to the provision of good teachers. The State will, thus, be relieved of the major part of its responsibilities for other items of expenditure.
2. Local Community be closely Associated with the School:
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Local community should accept the main responsibility for all items of expenditure, connected with the local school except remuneration of teachers and supervisors. Even then some kind of grant-in- aid must be provided by the State Government in accordance with the needs of the school and the resources of the local community.
3. Local School be made a Centre of Community Life:
The local school should evolve a programme of service to be local community and it should become a centre of its life as far as possible.
For the successful implementation of this programme, teachers should be trained in the methods by which the school can develop a close relationship with the community through its programme of activities.
Secondly, the training institutions should be equipped to discharge this function with zeal and efficiency.
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Thirdly, the local communities should be orientated to take a greater interest in their schools and to help them function better.