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.

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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 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

References

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  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  11. "Yogesh Bhattarai to take oath of office as tourism minister at 4 pm today". República. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.