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The main objective of the project is to assist the Government in carrying out principal elements of its education and training strategy set forth in the 1978-1982 Third Education Development Plan. They include expanding basic education and training opportunities for children and adults in rural communities, improving the quality and efficiency of rural school administration and supervision, expanding in-service training programs for basic education teachers and school directors, expanding the production of textbooks and teaching material for basic education, and establishing a new post-secondary technological institute to train technicians in selected priority specializations needed for the country's industrial development. The project consists of construction, replacement or expansion and equipping and furnishing of 245 schools in rural communities, equipping and furnishing of an additional 111 such schools; equipping and furnishing new facilities being constructed at the National Teacher Training School and provision of supplies for the production of teacher training material; production of about one million basic education textbooks and teaching guides; construction, equipping, and furnishing of a new post-secondary technical institute; and technical assistance.