The Constitution of Nepal 2072 in English

Preamble

Part-1
Preliminary

Part-2
Citizenship

Part-3
Fundamental Rights and Duties

Part-4
Directive Principles, Policies and Obligations of the State

Part-5
Structure of State and Distribution of State Power

Part -6
President and Vice-President

Part-7
Federal Executive

Part-8
Federal Legislature

Part-9
Federal Legislative Procedures

Part-10
Federal Financial Procedures

Part-11
Judiciary

Part-12
Attorney General

Part-13
State Executive

Part-14
State Legislature

Part- 15
State Legislative Procedures

Part-16
State Financial Procedures

Part-17
Local Executive

Part-18
Local Legislature

Part-19
Local Financial Procedures

Part-20
Interrelations between Federation, State and Local level

Part- 21
Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority

Part-22
Auditor General

Part -23
Public Service Commission

Part-24
Election Commission

Part-25
National Human Rights Commission

Part -26
National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission

Part -27
Other Commissions

Part -28
Provision Relating National Security

Part- 29
Provision relating to Political Parties

Part- 30
Emergency Power

Part- 31
Amendment to the Constitution

Part- 32
Miscellaneous

Part- 33
Transitional Provisions

Part- 34
Definitions and Interpretation

Part- 35
Short Title, Commencement and Repeal

Schedule- 1
National Flag of Nepal

Schedule -2
National Anthem of Nepal

Schedule -3
Coat of Arms of Nepal

Schedule -4
States and Districts to be included in the States

Schedule- 5
List of Federal Power

Schedule- 6
List of State Power

Schedule- 7
List of Concurrent Powers of Federation and State

Schedule- 8
List of Local level Power

Schedule- 9
List of Concurrent Power of Federation, State and Local level

List of Concurrent Powers of Federation, State and Local Level

Schedule-9

(Relating to clause (5) of Article 57, Article 109, clause (4) of Article 162, Article

197, clause (2) of Article 214, clause (2) of Article 221, and clause (1) of Article 226)

List of Concurrent Powers of Federation, State and Local Level

SN Matters

1. Cooperatives

2. Education, health and newspapers

3. Health

4. Agriculture

5. Services such as electricity, water supply, irrigation

6. Service fee, charge, penalty and royalty from natural resources,

tourism fee

7. Forests, wildlife, birds, water uses, environment, ecology and biodiversity

8. Mines and minerals

9. Disaster management

10. Social security and poverty alleviation

11. Personal events, births, deaths, marriages and statistics

12. Archaeology, ancient monuments and museums

13. Landless squatters management

14. Royalty from natural resources

15. Motor vehicle permits

List of Local Level Power

Schedule-8

(Relating to clause (4) of Article 57, clause (2) of Article 214, clause

(2) of Article 221 and clause (1) of Article 226)

List of Local Level Power

SN Matters

1. Town police

2. Cooperative institutions

3. Operation of F.M.

4. Local taxes (wealth tax, house rent tax, land and building

registration fee, motor vehicle tax), service charge, fee, tourism fee,

advertisement tax, business tax, land tax (land revenue), penalty,

entertainment tax, land revenue collection

5. Management of the Local services

6. Collection of local statistics and records

7. Local level development plans and projects

8. Basic and secondary education

9. Basic health and sanitation

10. Local market management,environment protection and biodiversity

11. Local roads, rural roads, agro-roads, irrigation

12. Management of Village Assembly, Municipal Assembly, District

Assembly, local courts, mediation and arbitration

13. Local records management

14. Distribution of house and land ownership certificates

15. Agriculture and animal husbandry, agro-products management,

animal health, cooperatives

16. Management of senior citizens, persons with disabilities and the

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incapacitated

17. Collection of statistics of the unemployed

18. Management, operation and control of agricultural extension

19. Water supply, small hydropower projects, alternative energy

20. Disaster management

21. Protection of watersheds, wildlife, mines and minerals

22. Protection and development of languages, cultures and fine arts

List of Concurrent Powers of Federation and State

Schedule-7

(Relating to clause (3) of Articles 57, Article 109, clause (4) of

Article 162, and Article 197)

List of Concurrent Powers of Federation and State

SN Matters

1. Civil and criminal procedure, evidence and oaths (legal recognition,

public acts and records, and judicial proceedings)

2. Supply, distribution, price control, quality and monitoring of essential

goods and services

3. Preventive detention for reasons connected with the security of the

country, prison and detention management, and maintenance of peace

and order

4. Transfer of accused persons, detainees and prisoners from one State to

another State

5. Laws relating to family affairs (marriage, transfer of property, divorce,

persons on the verge of extinction, orphan, adoption, succession and

joint family)

6. Acquisition, requisitioning of property and creation of right in property

7. Contracts, cooperatives, partnership and agency related matters

8. Matters relating to bankruptcy and insolvency

9. Drugs and pesticides

10. Planning, family planning and population management

11. Social security and employment, trade unions, settlement of industrial

disputes, labour rights and disputes related matters

12. Legal profession, auditing, engineering, medicines, Ayurvedic

medicines, veterinary, Amchi and other professions

13. State boundary river, waterways, environment protection, biological

diversity

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14. Matters related to means of communication

15. Industries and mines and physical infrastructures

16. Casino, lottery

17. Early preparedness for, rescue, relief and rehabilitation from, natural

and man made calamities

18. Tourism, water supply and sanitation

19. Motion pictures, cinema halls and sports

20. Insurance business operation and management

21. Poverty alleviation and industrialization

22. Scientific research, science and technology and human resources

development

23. Utilization of forests, mountains, forest conservation areas and waters

stretching in inter-State form

24. Land policies and laws relating thereto

25. Employment and unemployment aid

List of State Power

Schedule-6

(Relating to clause (2) of Article 57, clause (4) of Article 162,

Article 197, clause (3) of Article 231, clause (7) of Article 232, clause (4)

of Article 274 and clause (4) of Article 296)

List of State Power

SN Matters

1. State police administration and peace and order

2. Operation of banks and financial institutions in accordance with the

policies of Nepal Rastra Bank, cooperative institutions, foreign grants

and assistance with the consent of the Centre

3. Operation of Radio, F.M., television

4. House and land registration fee, motor vehicle tax, entertainment tax,

advertisement tax, tourism, agro-income tax, service charge, fee,

penalty

5. State civil service and other government services

6. State statistics

7. State level electricity, irrigation and water supply services, navigation

8. State universities, higher education, libraries, museums

9. Health services

10. Matters relating to the State Assembly, State Council of Ministers

11. Intra-State trade

12. State highways

13. State bureau of investigation

14. Physical management and other necessary matters of State

governmental offices

15. State Public Service Commission

16. Management of lands, land records

17. Exploration and management of mines

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18. Protection and use of languages, scripts, cultures, fine arts and

religions

19. Use of forests and waters and management of environment within the

State

20. Agriculture and livestock development, factories, industrialization,

trade, business, transportation

21. Management of trusts (Guthi)

List of Federal Power

Schedule-5

(Relating to clause (1) of Article 57, and Article 109)

List of Federal Power

SN Matters

1. Relating to defence and military

(a) Protection of national unity and territorial integrity

(b) Relating to national security

2. War and defence

3. Arms and ammunitions factories and production thereof

4. Central Police, Armed Police Force, national intelligence and

investigation, peace, security

5. Central planning, central bank, finance policies, monetary and banking,

monetary policies, foreign grants, aid and loans

6. Foreign and diplomatic affairs, international relations and United Nations

related matters

7. International treaties or agreements, extradition, mutual legal assistance

and international borders, international boundary rivers

8. Telecommunications, allocation of radio frequency, radio, television and

postal matters

9. Customs, excise-duty, value-added tax, corporate income tax, individual

income tax, remuneration tax, passport fee, visa fee, tourism fee, service

charge and fee, penalty

10. Federal civil service, judicial service and other government services

11. Policies relating to conservation and multiple uses of water resources

12. Inland and inter-State electricity transmission lines

13. Central statistics (national and international standards and quality)

14. Central level large electricity, irrigation and other projects

15. Central universities, central level academies, universities standards and

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regulation, central libraries

16. Health policies, health services, health standards, quality and monitoring,

national or specialised service providing hospitals, traditional treatment

services and communicable disease control

17. Federal Parliament, Federal Executive, Local Level related affairs, special

structure

18. International trade, exchange, port, quarantine

19. Civil aviation, international airports

20. National transportation policies, management of railways and national

highways

21. Laws relating to the Supreme Court, High Courts, District Courts and

administration of justice

22. Citizenship, passport, visa, immigration

23. Atomic energy, air space and astronomy

24. Intellectual property (including patents, designs, trademarks and

copyrights)

25. Measurement

26. Mines excavation

27. National and international environment management, national parks,

wildlife reserves and wetlands, national forest policies, carbon services

28. Insurance policies, securities, cooperatives regulation

29. Land use policies, human settlement development policies, tourism

policies, environment adaptation

30. Criminal and civil laws making

31. Security printing

32. Social security and poverty alleviation

33. Constitutional Bodies, commissions of national importance

34. Sites of archaeological importance and ancient monuments

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35. Any matter not enumerated in the Lists of Federal Powers, State Powers

and Local Level Powers or in the Concurrent List and any matter not

specified in this Constitution and in the Federal laws

States, and Districts to be includedin the concerned States

Schedule-4

(Relating to clause (3) of Article 56)

States, and Districts to be includedin the concerned States

State No. 1 State No. 2

1. Taplejung

2. Panchthar

3. Ilam

4. Sankhuwasabha

5. Tehrathum

6. Dhankuta

7. Bhojpur

8. Khotang

9. Solukhumbu

10. Okhaldhunga

11. Udayapur

12. Jhapa

13. Morang

14. Sunsari

1. Saptari

2. Siraha

3. Dhanusa

4. Mahottari

5. Sarlahi

6. Rautahat

7. Bara

8. Parsa

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State No. 3 State No. 4

1. Dolakha

2. Ramechhap

3. Sindhuli

4. Kavrepalanchok

5. Sindhupalchok

6. Rasuwa

7.Nuwakot

8. Dhading

9. Chitwan

10. Makawanpur

11. Bhaktapur

12. Lalitpur

13. Kathmandu

1. Gorkha

2. Lamjung

3. Tanahun

4. Kaski

5. Manang

6. Mustang

7. Parbat

8. Syangja

9. Myagdi

10. Baglung

11.Nawalparasi (East of

Bardaghat Susta)

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State No. 5 State No. 6 State No. 7

1. Nawalparasi (West

of Bardaghat Susta

2. Rupandehi

3. Kapilbastu

4. Palpa

5. Arghakhanchi

6. Gulmi

7.Rukun (Eastern Part)

8. Rolpa

9. Pyuthan

10. Daang

11. Banke

12. Bardiya

1.Rukum (Western

Part)

2. Salyan

3. Dolpa

4. Jumla

5. Mugu

6. Humla

7. Kalikot

8. Jajarkot

9. Dailekh

10. Surkhet

1.Bajura

2.Bajhang

3. Doti

4. Achham

5. Darchula

6. Baitadi

7. Dadeldhura

8. Kanchanpur

9. Kailali

Coat of Arms of Nepal

Schedule-3

(Relating to clause (2) of Article 9)

Coat of Arms of Nepal

Note bene: This Coat of Arms may be made in larger or smaller size as per

necessity. The colour determined by the Government of Nepal shall

be used on it.

National Anthem of Nepal

Schedule-2

(Relating to clause (1) of Article 9)

National Anthem of Nepal

Sayaun Thunga Phool Ka Hami Eutai Mala Nepali

Sarvavhaum Vai Failiyeka Mechi Mahakali

Prakitika Koti Koti Sampada Ko Aanchala

Bir Haruka Ragata Le Swatantra Ra Atala

Gyana Bhumi Shanti Bhumi Terai Pahad Himala

Akhanda Yo Pyaro Hamro Matri Bhumi Nepal

Bahul Jati Bhasa Dharma Sanskriti Chan Bishala

Agragami Rastra Hamro Jaya Jaya Nepal.