Constitution of Nepal

51. Policies of the State: The state shall adopt the following policies:
 (a) Policies relating to National Unity and National Security:
 (1) Preserving Nepal's independence, sovereignty, geographical integrity, and freedom while maintaining national unity inviolable,
 (2) Promoting national unity by maintaining mutual harmony, tolerance, and solidarity among various castes, ethnicities, religions, languages, cultures, and sects, and developing cooperative relations between federal units,
 (3) Developing a national security system and making arrangements for peace and security,
 (4) Guaranteeing comprehensive human security,
 (5) Making the Nepali Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, Nepal, and all other security bodies strong, robust, professional, inclusive, and people-accountable based on national security policy,
 (6) Making citizens ready and capable to serve the nation as required by national needs,
 (7) Making appropriate use of the knowledge, skills, and experience of former employees, soldiers, police, and other former public servants in the national interest.
 (b) Policies relating to Political and Governance System:
 (1) Guaranteeing the supreme interest and development of the people through economic, social, and cultural transformation while protecting, strengthening, and developing

(1) Ensuring the condition that everyone can work, making the labor force, which is the main socio-economic strength of the country, skilled and professional, and enhancing employment domestically;

(2) Guaranteeing social security while ensuring the fundamental rights of all workers in accordance with the concept of decent work;

(3) Ending all forms of labor exploitation, including child labor;

(4) Promoting workers' participation in management while maintaining a harmonious relationship between workers and entrepreneurs;

(5) Regulating and managing the foreign employment sector to make it exploitation-free, safe, and orderly, and to guarantee employment and rights of workers;

(6) Encouraging the investment of capital, skills, technology, and experience earned from foreign employment in productive sectors within the country.

(ñ) Policy regarding Social Justice and Inclusion:

(1) Giving priority in employment to single women in helpless conditions based on skill, capability, and qualification, while making appropriate provisions for their livelihood;

(2) Rehabilitating, protecting, and empowering women at risk, those socially and family excluded, and victims of violence, making them self-reliant;

(3) Ensuring access to necessary services and facilities during reproductive conditions;

(4) Economically valuing work and contributions such as childcare and family care;

(5) Giving primary consideration to the best interests of the child;

(6) Identifying freed Kamaiyas, Kamlaharis, Harawas, Charawas, Haliyas, landless, and squatters, and rehabilitating them by providing housing land for settlement and agricultural land or employment for livelihood;

(7) Enhancing youth participation in national development, creating an environment for the full exercise of political, economic, social, and cultural rights, providing special opportunities in areas including education, health, and employment for youth empowerment and development, fostering personality development, and providing suitable opportunities for contribution to the comprehensive development of the state;

(8) Ensuring the right of indigenous nationalities to live with dignity, including their identity, by making special provisions for opportunities and benefits, ensuring their participation in decisions concerning their community, and preserving and promoting the traditional knowledge, skills, culture, social traditions, and experience of indigenous nationalities and local communities;

(9) Making special provisions for opportunities and benefits for minority communities to exercise their social and cultural rights while maintaining their identity;

(10) Making special provisions for equal distribution of economic, social, and cultural opportunities and benefits for the Madhesi community, Muslims, and backward classes, and for the protection, upliftment, empowerment, and development opportunities and benefits of the disadvantaged citizens within such communities;

(11) Making special provisions for opportunities and benefits for the protection, upliftment, empowerment, development, and fulfillment of basic needs of citizens from oppressed and backward regions;

(12) While providing social security and social justice, giving priority to the economically disadvantaged within all genders, regions, and communities;

(13) Making planned investment in sports and athletes to prepare healthy, capable, and disciplined citizens, and developing sports as a means to strengthen national unity and enhance national prestige in the international arena;

(14) Making the investment and role of community-based and national or international non-governmental organizations accountable and transparent, adopting a single-window system for the establishment, approval, operation, regulation, and management of such organizations, and involving such organizations only in areas of national need and priority.

(T) Policy regarding Justice and Penal System:

(1) Making the administration of justice speedy, accessible, economical, impartial, effective, and accountable to the people;

(2) Adopting alternative measures such as mediation and arbitration for the settlement of disputes of a general nature;

(3) Adopting effective measures for the control of corruption and irregularities in all sectors, including political, administrative, judicial, and social.

(Th) Policy regarding Tourism:

Developing an environment-friendly tourism industry as a vital foundation of the national economy through the identification, conservation, promotion, and dissemination of Nepal's historical, cultural, religious, archaeological, and natural heritages; creating the necessary environment and policies for the development of tourism culture; and prioritizing local people in the distribution of benefits from the tourism industry.

(D) Policy regarding International Relations:

(1) Conducting an independent foreign policy based on the Charter of the United Nations, the principles of non-alignment, Panchsheel, international law, and the norms of world peace, while actively safeguarding the sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence, and national interest of Nepal, keeping the supreme interest of the nation in mind;

(2) Reviewing past treaties and making treaties and agreements based on equality and mutual interest.