The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation was formed by taking science and technology from the previous Ministry of Education.
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The government has decided to reduce the number of federal ministries from 22 to 18. The Cabinet meeting held today approved the 'Government of Nepal (Division of Work) Regulations, 2083' and decided to reduce the number of ministries.
According to Prime Minister Balendra Shah's press and research expert Deepa Dahal, the government has kept the ministries of Finance, Home, Foreign Affairs, Defense and Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs intact. Similarly, the ministries of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation have also remained intact.
The government has given priority to technology and innovation and formed a separate 'Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation' to look after the newly added innovation-related work by removing science and technology from the previous Ministry of Education.
In a major change in the division of work of other ministries, similar ministries have been integrated. Accordingly, there will now be the Ministry of Education and Sports, Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Youth, Labor and Employment, and Ministry of Land, Cooperatives and Human Resources.
Similarly, the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security, the Ministry of Health and Food Security, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Environment have been formed.
The information technology-related work carried out by the former Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has now been merged into the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.
A plan to review the number of ministries for administrative reform and cost reduction was put forward under the '100 Agenda for Government Reforms' issued immediately after the formation of the new government. Dahal informed that the division of work, name change and integration of ministries were done based on the report submitted by the 'Restructuring Management Secretariat' formed under the coordination of Secretary Govinda Bahadur Karki to implement the same plan.
