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:

|scope="col"||scope="col"|Name|scope="col"|Party|scope="col"|Assumed office|scope="col"|Left office|
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|Bhim Acharya|CPN (UML)|25 February 2014|13 September 2014|||||||
|Deepak Chandra Amatya|CPN (UML)|14 September 2014|22 May 2015|||||||
|Kripasur Sherpa|CPN (UML)|23 May 2015|12 October 2015|||||||
|Ananda Pokharel|CPN (UML)|5 November 2015|4 August 2016|||||||
|Jeevan Bahadur Shahi|Nepali Congress|26 August 2016|8 May 2017|||||||
|Jitendra Narayan Dev|Nepal Loktantrik Forum|8 May 2017|14 February 2018|||||||
|Rabindra Prasad Adhikari|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) <small>until 17 May 2018</small> Nepal Communist Party <small>from 17 May 2018</small> || 16 March 2018 || 27 February 2019 (Deceased)|||||||||
|_Prime Minister_ Khadga Prasad Oli|Nepal Communist Party|1 March 2019|30 July 2019|||||||
|Yogesh Bhattarai|Nepal Communist Party|31 July 2019|20 December 2020|||||||
|Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal|CPN (UML)|25 December 2020|4 June 2021|||||||
|Uma Shankar Aragriya|People's Socialist Party, Nepal|4 June 2021|22 June 2021|||||||
|Lila Nath Shrestha|CPN (UML)|24 June 2021|12 July 2021|||||||
|Prem Ale|CPN (Unified Socialist)|8 October 2021|29 June 2022|||||||
|Jeevan Ram Shrestha|CPN (Unified Socialist)|30 June 2022|Incumbent|||||||

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|Hisila Yami|August 18, 2008|May 25, 2009|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)||||||
|Pushpa Kamal Dahal|||||||||
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|Sharad Singh Bhandari|May 25, 2009|February 6, 2011|rowspan="2"|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|||||
|Madhav Kumar Nepal|||||||||
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|Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma|May 4, 2011|August 29, 2011|||||||
|Jhala Nath Khanal|||||||||
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|Ram Kumar Shrestha|March 18, 2013|February 11, 2014|Independent||||||
|Khil Raj Regmi|||||||||
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|Bhim Acharya|February 25, 2014|September 13, 2014|rowspan="3"|Nepali Congress|||||
|rowspan="3"|Sushil Koirala||||||||
|Deepak Chandra Amatya|September 14, 2014|May 22, 2015|||||||
|Kripasur Sherpa|May 23, 2015|October 12, 2015|||||||
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|Ananda Pokharel|November 5, 2015|August 4, 2016|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||||||
|KP Sharma Oli|||||||||
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|Jeevan Bahadur Shahi|August 26, 2016|May 8, 2017|rowspan="2"|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|||||
|rowspan="2"|Pushpa Kamal Dahal||||||||
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|rowspan="2"|Jitendra Narayan Dev|May 8, 2017|May 31, 2017||||||
|July 26, 2017|February 15, 2018|Nepali Congress|||||||
|Sher Bahadur Deuba|||||||||
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|Ravindra Prasad Adhikari|March 16, 2018|February 27, 2019|rowspan="3"|Nepal Communist Party|||||
|rowspan="3"|KP Sharma Oli||||||||
|KP Sharma Oli|March 1, 2019|July 30, 2019|||||||
|Yogesh Bhattarai|July 31, 2019|December 20, 2020|||||||
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|Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal|||||||||