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According to the priority, 'Operation Black-board' has been taken up first. Now, Rs.100 crores to be pushed unto one scheme in one year need a lot of planning. That planning is being done. It has already been stated by me during answering question and so on, what exactly is proposed to be done. From the speeches made my Hon. Members, it appears that this 'Operation Black-board', according to them, is a very diffused affair. They have been saying: "Out of so many schools, where are you going to choose the schools, how ar you really going to give 'Operation Black-board' there, so on." I would like to say that a scheme is being prepared and, I am sure, after hearing me, Hon. Members will agree with me that there could not have been a more practical approach to this scheme. There are 5,000 and odd Blocks in the country. We have said that 20% of the schools will get the benefit of Operation Black-board. Now, we cannot choose at random twenty per cent of the schools all over the country. That will be wasteful.
That will be difficult to achieve. I cannot take one school here and another school at 200 miles. That is just not possible. So as we did in the case of National Extension Blocks in 1950s, we have taken the same decision and we have approached the problem in the same way. We said we will take twenty percent of the Blocks, So, we know there is a compact area, there is a machinery there which we can press into service and therefore,we decided that twenty per cent would mean twenty per cent of the Block. Now, I would like to make an offer to the Hon. Members to let them know the blocks in their respective areas which are going to be covered and it has been ensured that each District will have at-least one block. Some district may have more, But I do not want to skip district after district and go to places where it may not be wanted as much.