text: But in the modern times significant number of Rai are also employed in foreign military service and in foreign employment, like the Indian Gorkha Regiment , British Gurkha Regiment , Gurkha Contingent of Singapore Police. Along with their relatives they have had the opportunity to work and live abroad in countries like United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brunei and India. Because of that financially, compared to some other indigenous groups, they are relatively better off.
  Some Rai have reached top national level Political, bureaucratic, academic and Diplomatic positions( see Notable Rai people below)
  Traditionally daily housework, such as cooking is the responsibility of the young women, especially girls,. They tend to be the ones who gather firewood from the forests and carry water from the communal water sources while men are mostly involved in the agriculture activities.
  In the past Kirati Rai people used to use the land under the Kipat system where the people exercised communal rights over the land; land that was tax free and included dominion over all cultivated lands, forests, streams and rivers within its bounds (Bista, 1967:38). Under the Kipat system other ethnic groups had to pay tax to the Rai owners of the land. People used to farm their land on their own, seldom were fields rented or cultivated by anyone others than the owners.