The rural development program described here works toward integrating education with problems of the masses in Maharashtra, India. Seventeen graduates from six universities and a rural institute live in the villages and work in agricultural development and extension (providing supervision and demonstration) and in social education and…

Two issues are discussed: (1) The responsibility of adult education in the development of the poor, disadvantaged, and underprivileged small farmers, tenants, and landless agriculture laborers in rural areas, and (2) the methodology that would be most appropriate for adult education concerned with the development in rural society. (TA)