Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (Nepal)

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

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 201413 September 2014
2 Deepak Chandra Amatya[2]CPN (UML)14 September 201422 May 2015[3]
3 Kripasur Sherpa[3]CPN (UML)23 May 201512 October 2015
4 Ananda Pokharel[4]CPN (UML)5 November 20154 August 2016
5 Jeevan Bahadur Shahi[5]Nepali Congress26 August 20168 May 2017
6 Jitendra Narayan Dev[6]Nepal Loktantrik Forum8 May 201714 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 201827 February 2019 (Deceased)
8 Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli[9][10]Nepal Communist Party1 March 201930 July 2019
10 Yogesh Bhattarai[11]Nepal Communist Party31 July 201920 December 2020
11 Bhanu Bhakta DhakalCPN (UML)25 December 20204 June 2021
12 Uma Shankar AragriyaPeople's Socialist Party, Nepal4 June 202122 June 2021
13 Lila Nath ShresthaCPN (UML)24 June 202112 July 2021
14 Prem AleCPN (Unified Socialist)8 October 202129 June 2022
15 Jeevan Ram Shrestha CPN (Unified Socialist)30 June 2022Incumbent
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

  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.
  3. 1 2 "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. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017. 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.
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