Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (Nepal)


The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation 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. As of March 2019, the ministry is being led by Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli.

History

The Ministry of Tourism was established in 1978 by the Government of Nepal. The portfolios of Civil Aviation and Culture were added in 1982 and 2000 respectively. This structure was dissolved again in 2008, when the ministry was split into the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation on the one side and the Ministry of Culture and State Restructuring on the other side. In 2012, the ministry was again renamed and gained its current form as the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.

Organisational Structure

The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has several departments and subdivisions:
This is a list of former Ministers of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation since the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election in 2013:
NamePartyAssumed OfficeLeft Office
1Bhim AcharyaCommunist Party of Nepal 25 February 201413 September 2014
2Deepak Chandra AmatyaCommunist Party of Nepal 14 September 201422 May 2015
3Kripasur SherpaCommunist Party of Nepal 23 May 2015
4Ananda PokharelCommunist Party of Nepal 5 November 2015
5Jeevan Bahadur ShahiNepali Congress26 August 2016
6Jitendra Narayan DevNepal Loktantrik Forum8 May 201714 February 2018
7Rabindra Prasad AdhikariCommunist Party of Nepal until 17 May 2018
Nepal Communist Party from 17 May 2018		16 March 201827 February 2019
8Prime Minister Khadga Prasad OliNepal Communist Party1 March 201930 July 2019
10Yogesh BhattaraiNepal Communist Party31 July 2019