Wikipedia

Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (Nepal)

government ministry of Nepal
See the main article: Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation

The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) is the governmental body for promoting tourism, culture and private sector involvement in Nepal. It also serves as the Nepalese aviation regulatory body. The ministry is located in Singha Durbar, Kathmandu.

Former Ministers of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation

change

This is a list of former Ministers of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation since the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election in 2013:

Name Party Assumed office Left office
1 Bhim Acharya[1] CPN (UML) 25 February 2014 13 September 2014
2 Deepak Chandra Amatya[2] CPN (UML) 14 September 2014 22 May 2015[3]
3 Kripasur Sherpa[3] CPN (UML) 23 May 2015 12 October 2015
4 Ananda Pokharel[4] CPN (UML) 5 November 2015 4 August 2016
5 Jeevan Bahadur Shahi[5] Nepali Congress 26 August 2016 8 May 2017
6 Jitendra Narayan Dev[6] Nepal Loktantrik Forum 8 May 2017 14 February 2018
7 Rabindra Prasad Adhikari[7][8] Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) until 17 May 2018
Nepal Communist Party from 17 May 2018		 16 March 2018 27 February 2019 (Deceased)
8 Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli[9][10] Nepal Communist Party 1 March 2019 30 July 2019
10 Yogesh Bhattarai[11] Nepal Communist Party 31 July 2019 20 December 2020
11 Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal CPN (UML) 25 December 2020 4 June 2021
12 Uma Shankar Aragriya People's Socialist Party, Nepal 4 June 2021 22 June 2021
13 Lila Nath Shrestha CPN (UML) 24 June 2021 12 July 2021
14 Prem Ale CPN (Unified Socialist) 8 October 2021 29 June 2022
15 Jeevan Ram Shrestha CPN (Unified Socialist) 30 June 2022 Incumbent
Portrait Minister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency 		Took office Left Office Party Cabinet Prime Minister Ref
  Hisila Yami
(born 1959)
MCA for Kathmandu 7 		August 18, 2008 May 25, 2009 Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Dahal I Pushpa Kamal Dahal [12][13]
Sharad Singh Bhandari
(born 1978)
MCA for Mahottari 2 		May 25, 2009 February 6, 2011 Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal [14][15]
  Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma
(born 1968)br/>MCA for Kalikot 1 		May 4, 2011 August 29, 2011 Khanal Jhala Nath Khanal
Ram Kumar Shrestha March 18, 2013 February 11, 2014 Independent Regmi Khil Raj Regmi
Bhim Acharya
(born 1959)
MCA for Sunsari 6 		February 25, 2014 September 13, 2014 Nepali Congress Koirala Sushil Koirala
Deepak Chandra Amatya September 14, 2014 May 22, 2015
Kripasur Sherpa May 23, 2015 October 12, 2015
Ananda Pokharel November 5, 2015 August 4, 2016 Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Oli l KP Sharma Oli
  Jeevan Bahadur Shahi
(born 1965)
MCA for Humla 1 		August 26, 2016 May 8, 2017 Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Dahal II Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Jitendra Narayan Dev May 8, 2017 May 31, 2017
July 26, 2017 February 15, 2018 Nepali Congress Deuba IV Sher Bahadur Deuba
  Ravindra Prasad Adhikari
(1969–2019)
Kaski 2 		March 16, 2018 February 27, 2019 Nepal Communist Party Oli II KP Sharma Oli
  KP Sharma Oli
(born 1952) MP for Jhapa 5 		March 1, 2019 July 30, 2019
  Yogesh Bhattarai
(born 1966)
MP for Taplejung 1 		July 31, 2019 December 20, 2020
Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal

References

change
  1. ↑ "Meet the new cabinet of ministers". Nepali Times. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "PM KOIRALA ADMINISTERS OATH OF OFFICE TO NEW MINISTERS". Glocal Khabar. Retrieved 12 October 2017.[permanent dead link]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Sherpa appointed new tourism minister". The Kathmandu Post. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "3 more DPMs, 4 ministers sworn-in; total Cabinet strength is 26". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "13 new ministers take oath from President". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Three ministers from Nepal Democratic Forum sworn in". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "PM inducts 15 members to cabinet". My Republica. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  8. ↑ "Second International Airport is on new tourism's minister's priority". english.onlinekhabar.com. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  9. ↑ "Council of Ministers". Government of Nepal. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "संस्कृति, पर्यटन तथा नागरिक उड्डयन मन्त्रालय" (in Nepali). Government of Nepal. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  11. ↑ "Yogesh Bhattarai to take oath of office as tourism minister at 4 pm today". República. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  12. ↑ « Prachanda elected PM with 464 votes Archived 2008-11-22 at the Wayback Machine » (15 August 2008), sur le site nepalnews.com.
  13. ↑ « Ministers of Democratic Federal Republic of Nepal Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine ».
  14. ↑ "Madhav Kumar Nepal sworn in as Nepal PM". The Times of India. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  15. ↑ "Backgrounder: Nepali cabinet member list". People.cn. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ministry_of_Culture,_Tourism_and_Civil_Aviation_(Nepal)&oldid=9539396"