Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration

The Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (Nepali: सङ्घीय मामिला तथा सामान्य प्रशासन मन्त्री) is the head of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration of the Government of Nepal.^[1] One of the senior-most officers in the Federal Cabinet, the minister is responsibility for coordination, cooperation, facilitation and monitoring and evaluation of activities undertaken by local governments; regulation and management of the civil service in the country.^[2][3]

Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration
सङ्घीय मामिला तथा सामान्य प्रशासन मन्त्री
Emblem of Nepal
Flag of Nepal
Incumbent Bhagwati Neupane since 15 July 2025
Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration
Style	Honourable
Member of	Council of Ministers
Reports to	Prime Minister, Parliament
Seat	Singha Durbar, Nepal
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	President
Term length	No fixed term
Precursor	Minister of Federal Affairs and Local Development Minister of General Administration

The current minister is Bhagwati Neupane,^[4][5] who took office on 15 July 2025.^[6]

List of former ministers

  Nepali Congress   CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
  CPN (Maoist Centre)
  People's Socialist Party, Nepal
  People's Progressive Party, Nepal

#		Name	Took of office			Prime Minister		Minister's Party
1		Lal Babu Pandit [7][8]	16 March 2018	20 March 2019	369		KP Sharma Oli	CPN (UML)
2		Hridayesh Tripathi [9][10]	21 November 2019	25 December 2020	400			PPP-N
								CPN (UML)
3		Ganesh Singh Thagunna [11][12]	25 December 2020	4 June 2021	161
4		Ganesh Kumar Pahadi [13][14]	10 June 2021	22 June 2021	12
5		Lilanath Shrestha [15]	24 June 2021	11 July 2021	17
–		Sher Bahadur Deuba [16][17]	13 July 2021	8 October 2021	87		Sher Bahadur Deuba	Nepali Congress
6		Rajendra Prasad Shrestha [18]	8 October 2021	14 October 2022	371			PSP-N
–		Pushpa Kamal Dahal [19][20]	26 December 2022	17 January 2023	22		Puspha Kamal Dahal	CPN (Maoist Centre)
7		Aman Lal Modi [21][22]	17 January 2023	14 August 2023	209			CPN (Maoist Centre)
8		Anita Devi Sah [22][23]	14 August 2023	4 March 2024	203			Janamat Party
–		Pushpa Kamal Dahal [24][25]	4 March 2024	6 March 2024	2			CPN (MC)
9		Bhanu Bhakta Joshi [26][27]	6 March 2024	15 July 2024	131			CPN (Unified Socialist)
10		Raj Kumar Gupta [28][29]	15 July 2024	15 July 2025	365		KP Sharma Oli	CPN (UML)
11		Bhagwati Neupane [6][4][5]	15 July 2025	Incumbent	9