diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 #### Code Entrypoint
 The evaluator will use `/home/aicrowd/run.sh` as the entrypoint. Please remember to have a `run.sh` at the root which can instantiate any necessary environment variables and execute your code. This repository includes a sample `run.sh` file.
 
+### Local Debug
+
+```
+export TEST_IMAGES_PATH="./data/test_images"
+export IMAGE_NAME="aicrowd-food-recognition-challenge-submission"
+
+./build.sh
+./debug.sh
+
+######################################
+## NOTE : 
+## 
+## * If you do not wish to your a GPU when testing locally, please feel free to replace nvidia-docker with docker
+##
+## * If you want to test on images located at an alternate location, set the `TEST_IMAGES_PATH` environment variable accordingly before running `build.sh` and `debug.sh`.
+```
+
 ### Submitting 
 To make a submission, you will have to create a private repository on [https://gitlab.aicrowd.com](https://gitlab.aicrowd.com).
 
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 509203f8709ab3684df5962469109a600e3c765f..25dea2a1e072527c555627490d4dc4f692537ad2 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-export IMAGE_NAME="aicrowd-food-recognition-challenge-submission"
 
 docker build -t $IMAGE_NAME
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diff --git a/debug.sh b/debug.sh
index a5c17a904ed1aca430d586a954312ec502328aac..28902d1bad76931754722750cd16ce2e6fa0cddd 100644
--- a/debug.sh
+++ b/debug.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 
-export TEST_IMAGES_PATH="./data/test_images"
-export IMAGE_NAME="aicrowd-food-recognition-challenge-submission"
 
 nvidia-docker run -it \
   --net=host \