Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Nepal)


The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is a governmental body of Nepal responsible for the overall development of education in Nepal. The ministry is responsible for formulating educational policies and plans and managing and implementing them across the country through the institutions under it. In 2018, under the second Oli cabinet, the portfolio of the ministry was enlarged and the portfolios of Science and Technology were added to the then Ministry of Education, while the Ministry of Science and Technology was discontinued. The current minister of Education, Science and Technology is Giriraj Mani Pokharel, who has already had this post in the first Oli cabinet in 2015.

Former Ministers of Education

This is a list of all ministers of Education since the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election in 2013:
NamePartyAssumed OfficeLeft OfficePortfolio
1Chitra Lekha YadavNepali Congress25 February 2014Minister of Education
2Giriraj Mani PokharelCommunist Party of Nepal 19 October 2015Minister of Education
3Dhaniram PaudelCommunist Party of Nepal 14 August 201631 May 2017Minister of Education
4Gopal Man ShresthaNepal Loktantrik Forum7 June 201715 February 2018Minister of Education
5Giriraj Mani PokharelCommunist Party of Nepal 16 March 2018Ministry of Education, Science and Technology