National Statistics Officeराष्ट्रिय तथ्याङ्क कार्यालय

What does it do?

• A National Statistics Office is to exist as the central body for statistics work, placed under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. giwmscdnone.gov.np Statistics Act 2079, s.23(1)
• Its functions include drafting statistics policy, plans and strategy for the Council, coordinating agencies across the national statistical system, conducting censuses and surveys, providing data to the federal, provincial and local governments, setting and certifying statistical standards, and acting as the central statistics (data) bank. giwmscdnone.gov.np Statistics Act 2079, s.24 (clauses (क)-(ङ), (ज))

Which law set it up?

What the law says is summarised with section numbers, not quoted, because text copied from the official PDFs is not reliable.

Law

Statistics Act, 2079तथ्याङ्क ऐन, २०७९

Section

Section 23(1) (कार्यालयको स्थापना)

Official text

lawcommission.gov.np

History

“The Act has upgraded the former Central Bureau of Statistics as the National Statistics Office. Consequently, the National Statistics Office has been established in the 13 th of October, 2022.” nsonepal.gov.np Introduction (English interface)

Who leads it and who oversees it?

Head

Laxmi Kumari Basnet, Chief Statistician nsonepal.gov.np Checked 2026-10-16

Falls under

Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministersप्रधानमन्त्री तथा मन्त्रिपरिषद्को कार्यालय giwmscdnone.gov.np Statistics Act 2079, s.23(1)

Website

nsonepal.gov.np

What could we not establish?

• The English title of the Act differs between the Law Commission ('Data Act') and the NSO ('Statistics Act').ऐनको अंग्रेजी शीर्षक कानून आयोगमा ‘Data Act’ र राष्ट्रिय तथ्याङ्क कार्यालयमा ‘Statistics Act’ छ।