Hundred agricultural students going to Israel

One hundred students studying in the final year of graduation at the University of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (AFU) are going to Israel. The students are being sent here in collaboration with AFU and Ramat Negv International Trading Center of Israel.

The university has formed a selection committee and selected the students to go to Israel. According to Dr. Shiv Chandra Dhakal, Planning Director of the University and Member Secretary of the Selection Committee, the students have been selected to go to Israel under the Agriculture Work-Study Program. Applications were sought from students studying at the university's faculty and affiliated campuses to send students to Israel.

According to Dhakal, 273 students had applied to participate in the program. Out of them, 168 students were selected for the interview through a round-robin.

Out of the 125 participants in the interview, 100 have been selected and 25 have been placed in the alternative. The students were interviewed in the presence of Hanan Goder, Ambassador of Israel to Nepal, and Dr. Kanta Rijal, Ambassador of Nepal to Israel.

The students will stay in Israel for 11 months. An agreement has been reached to get five days of work, one day of study, and one day's leave while staying there. A student is expected to come to the university with technology and skills with an average amount of Rs. 1.2 million for his work.

According to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Dr. Punya Prasad Regmi, the students who return with the skills and money learned there will be able to work individually and as a group. Students who pass the final year of graduation will receive an academic certificate from the university only after their return. The university is going to withhold the educational certificate to prevent the students from staying there.

He says that this program has been started to prevent the attraction toward agricultural education. For the first time, the university is going to do this program. Preparations have been made for the students to go by the second week of August.