By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Jan. 17: The Ministry for Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) has laid out a working procedure for its newly unveiled programme “Reading while Earning”.
The procedure will be implemented under the President's Educational Reform Programme.
The procedure has been designed with the objective of producing entrepreneurs, businessmen, skilled and self-reliant citizens in the coming days by combining education with skills and production as per the market need.

The procedure also aims to implement the programme in a simple, easy and effective manner by providing income generating opportunities through general, technical and vocational schools.
The programme will be conducted in the community schools across the country. Initially, the programme had targeted the students of community schools. However, the government is now planning to implement it in a few schools as a pilot programme.

The procedure stated that the programme would be implemented in the fields of agriculture (plant science, animal science and horticulture), engineering (civil-electrical-computer), tourism and hospitality, forest and environment, construction, automobile, commercial insect (bee keeping, mushroom and silk) farming.
According to Clause 7 of the procedure, a conditional grant will be provided to the selected schools through the concerned local governments based on their proposals.
It is a new programme introduced by Finance Minister Janarjan Sharma in the substitution budget of this fiscal.