Powers of Different level of Government in Nepal According to the Constitution of Nepal

Powers of Federal Government in Nepal according to the Constitution:

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

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

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

List of Powers of State Governments:

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

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 Concurrent powers of Federal Government and State Government:

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
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 Power of Local Governments:
	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   bio-diversity
			diversity
	11.		Local roads, rural roads, agro-roads, irrigation
	12.		Management of Village Assembly, Municipal Assembly, District Assembly, local courts, mediation and arbitration
			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
			animal health, cooperatives
	16.		Management of senior citizens, persons with disabilities and the
			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, State and Local Level

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,
7.	Forests, wildlife, birds, water uses, environment, ecology and bio-diversity
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