Resources
Templates, guides and tools the desk has found worth surfacing
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Companies Act, 2063 as amended to 2081/12/17 (Office of the Company Registrar) (in Nepali) Company Registrar's page for the Nepali text of the Companies Act, 2063 including the amendment of 2081/12/17 BS (about March 2025); no English version on the page. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Network Readiness Index 2025: Nepal country profile Portulans Institute's Network Readiness Index 2025 profile of Nepal, ranked 107 of 127 economies, with rankings by pillar and sub-pillar for technology, people, governance and impact. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Value Added Tax Act, 2052 - current and past versions (Inland Revenue Department) IRD listing of the VAT Act, 2052, newest version amended by the Finance Act 2082 (posted 18 Poush 2082); an English 1996 (2052) text and schedules are listed too. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Electronic Transactions Act, 2063 (2008) - Nepal Law Commission page (in Nepali) Nepal Law Commission page for the Electronic Transactions Act, 2063 (2008); the title is in English but the Act text on the page is in Nepali. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Global Findex 2025: Nepal microdata (World Bank) World Bank Microdata Library record for the Nepal sample of the Global Findex 2025 survey, collected May to December 2024, free to cite and use under its public-distribution terms. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Patent, Design and Trade Mark Act, 1965 (WIPO Lex) WIPO Lex entry for Nepal's patent, design and trademark law; the English PDF is the 2006 version, the Nepali text is newer (amended to Feb 2016). | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Income Tax Act, 2058 - current and past versions (Inland Revenue Department) IRD listing of the Income Tax Act, 2058, newest version amended by the Finance Act 2082 (posted 18 Poush 2082); older versions and an English 2002 (2058) text are also listed. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
ICT Development Index 2026 (ITU) ITU's ICT Development Index 2026 with PDF report and Excel dataset covering 159 economies; Kathmandu Post (2 July 2026) reports Nepal is ranked again with a score of 68.1. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Digital 2026: Nepal (DataReportal) DataReportal's Digital 2026 Nepal report, published 8 November 2025, with 16.6 million internet users, 32.4 million mobile connections and 14.8 million social media identities as of October 2025. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
NRB Guidelines on the Regulatory Sandbox (June 2026) Nepal Rastra Bank's 20-page English guidelines for a fintech regulatory sandbox: definitions, eligibility, application and testing phases; published by the Payment Systems Department on 18 June 2026. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
NRB list of licensed Payment System Operators and Payment Service Providers One-page NRB Payment Systems Department list of licensed PSOs and PSPs in English, current to 2083/03/32 BS (16 July 2026). | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Copyright Act, 2002 (WIPO Lex) WIPO Lex entry with the English text of Nepal's Copyright Act, 2059 (2002), as amended up to 24 November 2006; later amendments are not in this text. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Privacy Act, 2075 (2018) - English translation (ADB Law and Policy Reform) English translation of Nepal's Privacy Act (Act 14 of 2075, authenticated 18 Sep 2018) on privacy of person, home and documents and handling of personal data, with a Nepali PDF alongside. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Nepal in Data Not-for-profit data and statistics portal that describes itself as Nepal's first publicly accessible portal, with documents and time-series records from 1950 onward. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Official site of Nepal's central bank. Hosts monetary policy documents, bylaws and directives, economic and financial publications, interest and forex rate data, and payment-system and financial-inclusion material. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Nepal Startup Summit 2026 Site for the Nepal Startup Summit 2026: a one-day orientation and workshop programme in each of the seven provinces from July 2026 to January 2027 for youth, founders, SMEs, investors, banks and policymakers. | Event | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Open Data Nepal Open Knowledge Nepal's open-data portal hosting free public datasets for Nepal for researchers, journalists, developers and policymakers. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
National Statistics Office (NSO) Nepal Official site of Nepal's National Statistics Office under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the national statistical agency's publication and data hub (bilingual). | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Humanitarian Data Exchange - Nepal UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data's Nepal page listing hundreds of humanitarian and crisis-response datasets from dozens of organisations. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
World Bank Open Data - Nepal World Bank's country data page for Nepal with development indicators, including internet-user share and other series. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Office of the Company Registrar (OCR), Nepal Official site of Nepal's Office of the Company Registrar. Its home page links to company registration and related services and the CAMIS online system, and its news section reports that a PAN is created automatically once company registration completes through CAMIS. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
NRB Foreign Investment and Foreign Loan Management Bylaw, 2021 (English) Unofficial English translation of Nepal Rastra Bank's Foreign Investment and Foreign Loan Management Bylaw, 2021 (including third amendment), issued by NRB's Foreign Exchange Management Department. Covers approval and recording of foreign-currency inflows for foreign investment, repatriation of investment and earnings, and foreign loans. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Department of Industry (DoI), Nepal Official site of Nepal's Department of Industry. Its stated remit includes foreign investment and technology transfer matters and industrial property protection, and it publishes notices and laws such as the Industrial Enterprises Act, 2076. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Investment Board Nepal (Office of the Board of Investment) Official site of the Office of the Board of Investment, Government of Nepal (International Convention Centre premises, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu), with Nepali and English language options. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
NSO Microdata Catalog NSO's Central Data Catalog where users can browse, search and download study metadata and data (microdata) from Nepal's national surveys and censuses. | Data | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Industrial Enterprises Act, 2076 (2020) - UNEP LEAP UNEP Law and Environment Assistance Platform record for Nepal's Industrial Enterprises Act, 2076 (2020), with abstract: industries must be registered under the Act (Sec. 3) and industries listed in Schedule-1 need prior permission from the Board. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
The Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, 2019 (2075) - ADB LPR ADB Law and Policy Reform Program entry for Nepal's Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, 2019 (dated 27 March 2019), with English translation downloads. The summary notes the Act lists restricted industries, permits foreign investment in others, and allows forms including establishing a venture capital fund. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
SEBON regulations listing Securities Board of Nepal's list of regulations (Nepali), including the Securities Issue and Trading Regulations for Small and Medium Organised Institutions, 2081 and the Securities Registration and Issue Regulation, 2073 (seventh amendment). | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
Inland Revenue Department (IRD), Nepal Official site of Nepal's Inland Revenue Department. Offers a taxpayer portal link, PAN search, tax clearance certificate verification, a tax calculator, and tax laws, directives and forms (income tax, VAT, excise), in Nepali and English. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |
The Companies Act, 2063 (2006) - English text (ICNL) English text of Nepal's Companies Act, 2063 (2006), authenticated 3 November 2006, hosted in the ICNL (International Center for Not-for-Profit Law) library, with the Act Amending Some Nepal Acts, 2064 noted. | Legal | Index desk | Open ↗ |