Post: | Minister |
Body: | Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation |
Insignia: | Emblem of Nepal (alternative).svg |
Insigniasize: | 150px |
Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Nepal |
Flag: | Flag of Nepal.svg |
Flagsize: | 100px |
Flagcaption: | Flag of Nepal |
Incumbent: | Balaram Adhikari |
Incumbentsince: | 15 July 2024 |
Department: | Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation |
Style: | Honourable |
Member Of: | Council of Ministers |
Reports To: | Prime Minister, Parliament |
Seat: | Singha Durbar, Nepal |
Nominator: | Prime Minister |
Appointer: | President |
Precursor: | Minister of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives |
Termlength: | No fixed term |
The Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation (Nepali: भूमि व्यवस्था,सहकारी तथा गरिबी निवारण मन्त्री) is the head of the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation of the Government of Nepal.[1] [2] One of the senior-most officers in the Federal Cabinet, the minister is responsibility to establish good governance by upgrading judicial access, feeling of security of land ownership, and effectiveness of service effluence in country.[3]
The current minister is Balaram Adhikari, who took office on 6 March 2024.[4] [5]
width=280px | Name | width=280px colspan=3 | Took of office | width=280px | Prime Minister | width=280px colspan=2 | Minister's Party | |
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1 | Padma Kumari Aryal [6] [7] | 3 August 2018 | 25 December 2020 | KP Sharma Oli | CPN (UML) | |||
2 | Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe [8] [9] | 25 December 2020 | 4 June 2021 | |||||
3 | Laxman Lal Karna [10] [11] | 4 June 2021 | 22 June 2021 | |||||
4 | Lila Nath Shrestha [12] | 24 June 2021 | 12 July 2021 | |||||
5 | Shashi Shrestha [13] [14] | 8 October 2021 | 26 December 2022 | Sher Bahadur Deuba | Maoist Centre | |||
6 | Rajendra Kumar Rai [15] [16] | 26 December 2022 | 27 February 2023 | Pushpa Kamal Dahal | CPN (UML) | |||
7 | Ranjeeta Shrestha [17] [18] [19] | 31 March 2023 | 4 March 2024 | NUP | ||||