Post: | Minister |
Body: | Physical Infrastructure and Transport |
Insignia: | Emblem of Nepal (alternative).svg |
Insigniasize: | 150px |
Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Nepal |
Flag: | Flag of Nepal.svg |
Flagsize: | 100px |
Flagcaption: | Flag of Nepal |
Incumbent: | Devendra Dahal |
Incumbentsince: | 15 July 2024 |
Department: | Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport |
Style: | Honourable |
Member Of: | Council of Ministers |
Reports To: | Prime Minister, Parliament |
Seat: | Singha Durbar, Nepal |
Nominator: | Prime Minister |
Appointer: | President |
Precursor: | Minister of Physical Planning and Works |
Termlength: | No fixed term |
The Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (Nepali: भौतिक पूर्वाधार तथा यातायात मन्त्री) is the head of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport.[1] [2] [3] One of the senior-most officers in the Federal Cabinet, the minister is responsibility supporting various economic activities and projects related to the development of the country's major physical infrastructure such as national public roads, national railways, waterways, which connect the country's rural areas with the market, tourism, agriculture, electrical, industrial and related projects in the country.[4] [5]
The current minister is Devendra Dahal, who took office on 15 July 2024.[6]
width=280px colspan="2" | width=280px | Name | width=280px colspan="3" | Took of office | width=280px colspan="2" | Prime Minister | width=280px | Minister's Party | |
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1 | Bijay Kumar Gachhadar [7] [8] | 12 October 2015 | 4 August 2016 | KP Sharma Oli | NLF | ||||
2 | Ramesh Lekhak [9] [10] | 4 August 2016 | 31 May 2017 | Pushpa Kamal Dahal | Nepali Congress | ||||
3 | Bir Bahadur Balayar [11] [12] | 25 July 2017 | 15 February 2018 | Sher Bahadur Deuba | |||||
4 | Raghubir Mahaseth [13] [14] | 16 March 2018 | 20 November 2019 | KP Sharma Oli | CPN (UML) | ||||
NCP | |||||||||
5 | Basanta Kumar Nemwang [15] [16] | 21 November 2019 | 12 July 2021 | ||||||
CPN (UML) | |||||||||
6 | Renu Kumari Yadav [17] [18] | 8 October 2021 | 4 July 2022 | Sher Bahadur Deuba | PSP–Nepal | ||||
7 | Mohammad Ishtiyaq Rayi [19] [20] | 4 August 2022 | 14 October 2022 | ||||||
– | Sher Bahadur Deuba [21] [22] | 14 October 2022 | 26 December 2022 | Nepali Congress | |||||
8 | Narayan Kaji Shrestha [23] [24] | 26 December 2022 | 31 March 2023 | Pushpa Kamal Dahal | CPN (MC) | ||||
9 | Prakash Jwala [25] [26] | 31 March 2023 | 4 March 2024 | CPN (US) | |||||
– | Pushpa Kamal Dahal [27] [28] | 4 March 2024 | 6 March 2024 | CPN (MC) | |||||
10 | Raghubir Mahaseth [29] [30] | 6 March 2024 | 3 July 2024 | CPN (UML) | |||||
– | Pushpa Kamal Dahal [31] [32] | 4 July 2024 | 15 July 2024 | CPN (MC) | |||||
11 | Devendra Dahal [33] [34] | 15 July 2024 | Incumbent | KP Sharma Oli | CPN (UML) |