Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizens

The Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizens (Nepali: महिला, बालबालिका तथा ज्येष्ठ नागरिक मन्त्री) is the head of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens of the Government of Nepal.^[1][2] One of the senior-most officers in the Federal Cabinet, the minister is responsibility to formulate policies for social and economic empowerment to promote the role of women, children, senior citizens and various sections of the society in the sustainable peace and development of the country.^[3]

Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizens
महिला, बालबालिका तथा ज्येष्ठ नागरिक मन्त्री
Emblem of Nepal
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Incumbent Nawal Kishor Sah since 15 July 2024
Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens
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 Labour, Employment, Women, Children and Social Security

The current minister is Nawal Kishor Sah,^[4][5][6] who took office on 15 July 2024.^[7]

List of former ministers

#		Name	Took of office			Prime Minister		Minister's Party
1		Tham Maya Thapa [8][9]	15 February 2018	20 November 2019	643		KP Sharma Oli	CPN (UML)
								NCP
2		Parbat Gurung [10][11]	21 November 2019	14 October 2020	328
3		Lilanath Shrestha [12][13]	14 October 2020	25 December 2020	72
4		Julie Kumari Mahato [14][15]	25 December 2020	4 June 2021	161			CPN (UML)
5		Chanda Chaudhary [16][17]	4 June 2021	22 June 2021	18			PSP–Nepal
6		Lilanath Shrestha [18][19]	24 June 2021	12 July 2021	18			CPN (UML)
–		Sher Bahadur Deuba [20][21]	13 July 2021	8 October 2021	87		Sher Bahadur Deuba	Nepali Congress
7		Uma Regmi [22][23]	8 October 2021	26 December 2022	444
–		Pushpa Kamal Dahal [24][25]	26 December 2022	17 January 2023	22		Puspha Kamal Dahal	CPN (Maoist Centre)
8		Bhagwati Chaudhary [26][27]	17 January 2023	27 February 2023	41			CPN (UML)
9		Mahindra Ray Yadav [28][29]	31 March 2023	7 May 2023	37			NSP
10		Surendra Raj Acharya [30][31]	7 May 2023	4 March 2024	302			Nepali Congress
–		Pushpa Kamal Dahal [32][33]	4 March 2024	6 March 2024	2			CPN (MC)
11		Bhagwati Chaudhary [34][35]	6 March 2024	3 July 2024	119			CPN (UML)
–		Pushpa Kamal Dahal [36][37]	4 July 2024	15 July 2024	12			CPN (MC)
12		Nawal Kishor Sah [5][6]	15 July 2024	Incumbent	398		KP Sharma Oli	PSP