'NILAM' or Nadi Ilmu Amalan Membam is a combination or mix of all reading promotion activities that have been carried out in schools with appropriate recognition. The implementation of this program includes continuous reading assessment throughout the year and marks are collected cumulatively until they finish school.

This program is an effort of the Malaysian Ministry of Education with the goal of building reading habits among students. The Education Technology Division is a secretariat in the Ministry of Education tasked to coordinate this program.

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​ This program has started to be implemented with Year One in primary school and Form One or Transition in secondary school officially in 1999, through the Malaysian Ministry of Education's Special Circular No. 13/1998: Building Reading Habits Program dated 22 May 1998.